scatophiliac
English
Etymology
From scato- + -philiac.
Noun
scatophiliac (plural scatophiliacs)
- (rare) One who exhibits scatophilia.
- 1973, Anthony Burgess, Obscenity and the Arts:
- Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's from Dublin, clergyman, was a great, shall we say, combined scatophobe and scatophiliac. He both hated and was fascinated by faeces.
- 1985, Michael Tobias, After Eden: History, Ecology, and Conscience, page 236:
- Joseph Mallard Turner had a profound, if scatophiliac, attraction to fire at sea.
- 2008, Stephen T. Holmes, Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior, page 82:
- Like the exhibitionist, the scatophiliac wants his victim, the person on the other end of the phone line, to be shocked, disgusted, or horrified by his demeanor or words.
- Synonym: scatophile
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