Of or relating to clitoromania; characterized by supposed excessive sexual desire in women.
From clitoromaniac + -al suffix meaning 'relating to.' This rare adjective form appears in older medical literature discussing supposed female sexual pathology.
The sheer number of baroque medical terms about female sexuality (clitoromania, nymphomania, hysteria) reveals that doctors were really just medicalizing and condemning women's sexuality rather than understanding it.
Adjective form of a 19th-century pathologizing diagnosis applied to women. Embedded in this term is the medical establishment's systematic denial of women's sexual autonomy and capacity, used to justify interventions from forced institutionalization to clitoridectomy.
Use only in historical or feminist critique contexts. Always note the term reflects discredited medicine used to harm women, not any actual pathology.
["sexually interested","sexually active"]
Women medical historians and patient advocates have reclaimed this history to document medical abuse and demand accountability in modern gynecological practice.
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