Here you will find the names for lovers of different things, some perfectly vanilla, some a deep, rich, and decadent chocolate. They would make delightfully twisted tales of horror, don’t you think? As always, please enjoy them and use them wisely.
Splatters and Screams,
Tanya
A
acrotomophilia – Love of amputees
ailurophilia – Love of cats
ammophilia – Love of sand and sandy places
androphilia – Love of men
anthophilia – Attraction to flowers
asphyxsiophilia – sexual arousal by either asphyxiating someone or being asphyxiated
apodysophilia – Desire to undress, see also nudism
apotemnophilia – Desire to amputate a healthy limb
arctophilia – Love of Teddy Bears
astrophilia – Love of astronomy and/or outer space in general
audiophilia – Love of recorded sound
autogynephilia – Love of oneself as a woman
autovoxiphillia – Love of one’s own voice
B
bibliophilia – Love of books
botanophilia- love of plants
brontophilia – arousal by thunderstorms and lightening
C
cacophonophilia – Love of harsh sounds
cagophilia – Love of keys
canophilia – Love of dogs
cartophilia – Love of cigarette cards
chasmophilia – Love of small places
chiropterophilia – Love of bats
chrysophilia – Love of gold
clinophilia – Love of beds
coprophilia – Sexual pleasure from feces
crurophilia – Love of legs
cypripareuniaphila – Love of prostitutes
D
Daemonphilia – sexual arousal or love of all things demonic
dendrophilia – Love of trees
discophilia – Love of sound recordings
E
ecdysiophile – Love of watching people strip
ephebophilia – arousal by teenagers
ergophilia – Love of work
F
Felinophilia – love of cats
Frigophilia – love of the cold
G
geophilia – Love of earth or geology
gerontophilia – Sexual attraction towards the elderly
glossophilia – Love of languages
gynephilia – Love of women
gynotikolobomassophilia – Love of biting a female’s earlobes
H
halophilia – Love of salt or salt-water
hebephilia – arousal by pubescents or tweens
heliophilia – Love of sunlight
hematophilia – love of blood
hippophilia – Love of horses
hirsutophilia – Love of hairy men
Hoplophilia – Sexual arousal from firearms and weaponry
hydrophilia – Love of water
hygrophilia – Love of living next to or spending time around water
I
iconophilia – Love of pictures and symbols
insulaphilia – Love of islands
J
jungliophilia – arousal by jungles
K
klismaphilia – Sexual pleasure from enemas
korophilia – Love of young men or boys
L
labeorphilia – Love of beer bottle labels
lavacultophilia – Desire to stare at someone in a bathing suit
lexiconophilist – Love of dictionaries and wordbooks
limnophilia – Love of ponds or marshes
linguphilia – arousal by languages (think Gomez Addams)
lininophilia – arousal by string
lithophilia – Love of stones
logophilia – Love of words – Logophiles may be interested in word games, such as crosswords, or Scrabble, and in the extreme, derive enjoyment from reading things commonly given less notice, such as labels,
lygophilia – Love of darkness
M
maiesiophilia – Sexual attraction to childbirth or pregnant women
malophilia – Love of apples
mammophilia – arousal by breasts and breastfeeding
mechanophilia – arousal by or love of an inanimate mechanical object
megamalophilia – Extreme love of apples, or love of the Big Apple
metrophilia – Love of the metro rail or subway systems
Mysophilia – Love of feces
myrmecophilia – Love of ants
N
nanophilia – Love of short people
necrophilia – Sexual attraction to corpses
negrophilia – Love of black people
nemophilia – Love of the woods/forests
neophilia – Love of the latest novelties and trends
nitrophilia – Love of nitrogen and explosions
nyctophilia – A preference for darkness or night.
O
oenophilia – Love of Wine
ombrophilia – Love of large amounts of rainfall
ophiophilia – Love of snakes
ornithophilia – Love of birds
osmophilia – Love of various smells
P
paedophilia – Sexual attraction to children
palaeophilia – Love of dinosaurs and prehistoric things
paraphilia – any sexual attraction considered unusual or taboo
pathenophillia – Love of virgins
peristerophilia – Love of pigeons
petrophilia – Love of living or spending time in rocky areas
philalethia – Love of the truth
photophilia – Love of living or spending time in lighted conditions
phytophilia – Love of plants
pogonophilia – Love of beards
pornophilia – love of pornography
psammophile – A plant loving sandy areas
psychrophilia – Love of cold temperatures
pygophilia – Love of buttocks
Q
queu0philia – arousal by braids
R
retrophilia – Love of things of the past
rheophilia – Love of living or spending time in running water
rhizophilous – Love of living or spending time on roots
S
sarcophilia – Love of flesh
sciophilia – Love of living in or spending time in shady conditions
Scopophilia – Sexual pleasure from seeing things
Scotophilia – love of the dark
Somnophilia – sexual arousal or love of someone being unconscious
stegophilia – Love of climbing buildings
stigmatophilia – Love of tattooing or branding
T
technophilia – Love of technology
thalassophilia – Love of the ocean
theophilia – Love of God
thermophilia – Love of high temperatures
threpterophilia – Love of female nurses
timbrophilia – Love of stamps
tobaccophilia – Love of tobacco
topophilia – Love of a particular place
toxophilia – Love of archery
tropophilia – Love of seasonal extremes of climate
turophilia – Love of cheese
trypanophilia – love of needles
typhlophilia – Love of the blind
U
urophilia – sexual arousal and love of urine
V
videophilia – love of video, television and gaming
W
wiccophilia – arousal by witches
wyvernophilia – arousal by wyverns
X
xenophilia – sexual attraction to aliens
xerophilia – Love of living or spending time in very dry conditions
xylophilia – Love of wood
Z
zoophilia – sexual attraction to non-human animals
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