Philia

Philia (from the Greek philia, friendship) is a suffix used in many words to denote a love of something. In particular, it can be used in words to describe some fetishes.

Examples

• Harmatophilia is arousal from sexual incompetence and mistakes.
• Hierophilia is arousal from religious paraphernalia.
• Merinthophilia is arousal from being bound
• Necrozoophilia is the love of, or sexual preoccupation for, practising sex on dead animals. It is the bestial form of necrophilia.
• Olfactophilia is arousal from body odours.
• Pecattiphilia is arousal from sinning (Latin peccavi, "I have sinned").
• Salophilia is a sexual attraction to salt or salty things (especially body sweat). The term derives from the Latin for salt, sal.
• Zelophilia is when one becomes sexually aroused by feelings of jealousy. (Etymology: Zelotypia (jealousy) + Greek phileein, to love.)

Alternative

Another suffix sometimes used to form similar words is "Mania", as in Nymphomania, Trichomania, etc.

See also

• List of paraphilias
• Agalmatophilia
• Andromimetophilia

‎* Choreophilia

• Claustrophilia
• Eproctophilia
• Forniphilia

‎* Gynemimetophilia

• Harpaxophilia
• Hodophilia
• Necrophilia
• Paraphilia
• Parthenophilia
• Phobia
• Phobophilia
• Somnophilia
• Symphorophilia

‎* Xenophilia

• Zoophilia