Andromania

/ˌændrəˈmeɪniə/ noun

Definition

An excessive or obsessive desire for men; an extreme form of heterosexual attraction or dependence on male relationships.

Etymology

From Greek andros (man) + mania (madness or obsession). A psychological or psychiatric term, rarely used in modern medicine but found in older clinical writings from the 19th-20th centuries.

Kelly Says

This clinical term from Victorian psychology reflects how doctors once pathologized normal human attraction—they literally called healthy sexual desire a form of insanity if you were a woman attracted to men, which seems absurdly sexist now.

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