Lesbophilia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fetishistic fascination (typically in non-lesbians) with lesbians and erotic contact between women. uncountable

    "It is his lesbophilia that sets Proust's narrator apart from the author, that marks the novel as a novel rather than a perverse exercise in selective autobiography."

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"It is his lesbophilia that sets Proust's narrator apart from the author, that marks the novel as a novel rather than a perverse exercise in selective autobiography."

Etymology

From lesbo- + -philia.

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