Aphrodisiomania

/ˌæfrədɪziəˈmeɪniə/ noun

An excessive or obsessive desire for sexual pleasure or activity; pathological sexual desire or addiction.

From 'Aphrodite' (Greek goddess of love) plus '-mania' (excessive desire, from Greek 'mania' meaning madness). Created as a medical term in 19th-century psychiatry to describe sexual compulsion.

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