Satyriasis

//ˌsatɪˈrʌɪəsɪs//

"Satyriasis" in a Sentence (3 examples)

The indulgence of illicit pleasures, says Dr. S. Pancoast, sooner or later is sure to entail the most loathsome diseases on their votaries. Among these diseases are […] Satyriasis (a species of sexual madness, or a sexual diabolism, causing men to commit rape and other beastly acts and outrages, not only on women and children, but men and animals, as sodomy, pederasty, etc.), […]

An early physician, a certain Baldassar Timoeus [...] adds that a preparation of nitre, dissolved in aqua nymphae, cured a chronic case of satyriasis.

It's a male myth about feminists that we hate sex. It can be a natural, zesty enterprise. But unfortunately there are some people—it is called satyriasis in men, nymphomania in women—who engage in it compulsively and without joy.

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