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SATYR [1 record]

Record 1 1982-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sexology
DEF

A man who suffers from pathologically excessive and insatiable heterosexual impulses.

CONT

John is a satyr - .... He has an unusually strong sex drive. He thinks of nothing else, talks of nothing else and is interested only in her body and not in her mind or personality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sexologie
DEF

(...) nom que l'on peut donner à l'homme qui souffre d'un état pathologique de surexcitation sexuelle. La libido devenue indomptable submerge les pensées de l'individu qui n'a plus qu'une obsession : répéter l'acte vénérien sans arrêt, irrésistiblement.

CONT

Le satyriasis répond à l'état d'érotisme morbide masculin (...). Le satyre est non seulement stimulé dans ses désirs, mais ses possibilités physiques sont généralement exaltées au point de pouvoir répéter la copulation d'une façon insolite (...)

Spanish

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