Nymphomania
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"When the sentiment predominates, the term Erotomania is employed, and when the animal propensity is more conspicuous, that of Nymphomania in females, and of Satyreasis in males, is employed."--The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases (1840) by Alexander Morison |
Illustration: The Birth of Venus (detail), a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli
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Nymphomania is an archaic term denoting an excess of sexual behavior or sexual desire in women.
The term was first attested ("ideò nymphomania appellatur") in François Ranchin in his Opuscula medica (1627).
Nymphomania, or a Dissertation Concerning the Furor Uterinus, a treatise dedicated to nymphomania was published in 1771 by the French physician J.D.T. de Bienville. The work is seen as a pendant to L'Onanisme (1760), the famous treatise on onanism by Samuel-Auguste Tissot.
In medical phraseology, the term nymphomania is no longer in use, being covered by the gender neutral term hypersexuality. The male equvalent of the condition used to be called satyriasis.
See also
- Clitoridectomy
- Female sexual desire
- Female orgasm
- Female sexuality
- Furor uterinus (redirects to female hysteria)
- Hypersexuality
- Insatiability of women
- Nymph
- Nymphette
- Nymphomaniac by Lars von Trier
- mania
- Sexual addiction
- Strong women
- The majority of women are not very much troubled with sexual feelings of any kind (1871) by William Acton
