Coprophilia - Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Coprophilia is one of types of paraphilia. Paraphilias are currently recognized as one of the categories of Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders in the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Coprophilia also called scat. It is the paraphilia involving sexual pleasure from feces. There is no technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic conditions of defecating in the mouth or over the body of the partner. Some coprophiliacs engage in coprophagia, the eating of feces, which is a potentially hazardous activity due to the risks of infection with diseases such as hepatitis. Coprophilia can be said to be liking the smell, taste, or feel of feces in a sexual way. The feeling can be either through touching the skin or through rubbing the penis head against feces. Enjoyment can also be made from the feeling of feces passing through the anus. Coprophilia is classified as a parahilia. A paraphilia is defined as unusual fantasies or sexual urges or behaviors that cause sexual arousal and continue to occur. The condition of being responsive to, or dependent on, the smell or taste of feces for the erotic arousal and the facilitation or achievement of orgasm. From the point of view of the species.

Paraphilia probably has its origins in mammalian hygiene whereby infants are licked clean. In individual biography, the correlation between feces and eroticism is varied in origin. It may be related to masochism and self deprecation. Coprophilia may involve also the sight and sound of a person defecating. Coprophile activities are sometimes referred to by the euphemism hardsports, presumably by analogy with the use of the euphemism watersports for urolagnia and urophilia. Urophilia- a paraphilia of the fetishistic/talismanic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and being urinated upon and/or swallowing urine. Coprophilia takes on an entirely different meaning in the light of work on mourning and the notion of loss. Given the specific features of the two opposite pleasures of anal eroticism , retention and expulsion, he distinguished the same opposition in the sadistic instincts. There would then be a link between the expulsion of the anal object and the melancholy that results from the expulsion of a person. Psychoanalysis thus facilitated the establishment of a link between melancholy, obsessional neuroses, and coprophilia.