Aquaphilia (fetish)

Aquaphilia is a form of sexual fetishism that involves images of people swimming or posing underwater, and sexual activity in or under water.[1][2][3]

Literally "water lover" from the Latin aqua and Greek φιλειν (philein), the term "aquaphile" was first used by Phil Bolton, when he created the "Aquaphiles Journal" - an online magazine for followers of the underwater erotica scene published in the 1990s.

The psychology of aquaphilia was the subject of a paper by Corinne Lamberth (a therapeutic counsellor based in Lewisham, South London) in 1998. A copy of this paper was published in the Aquaphiles Journal in early 1999.

References

  1. ↑ Ramsland, Katherine M.; McGrain, Patrick Norman (2010). Inside the Minds of Sexual Predators. ABC-CLIO. pp. 61–62. ISBN 0-313-37960-2.
  2. ↑ Ågmo, Anders (2007). Functional and dysfunctional sexual behavior: a synthesis of neuroscience and comparative psychology. Academic Press. p. 454. ISBN 0-12-370590-8.
  3. ↑ Swami, Viren; Furnham, Adrian (2008). The psychology of physical attraction. Routledge. p. 134. ISBN 0-415-42250-7.
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