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Nymphomania   Listen
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nymphomania  n.  (Med.) An uncontrollable excessive sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.






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"Nymphomania" Quotes from Famous Books



... between nine and ten years, while in others the former are hardly mature at twenty and the latter before seventeen or eighteen. Again, individual variations may be very great in the same race. But, owing to hereditary satyriasis or nymphomania, we sometimes in our own country see sexual appetite appear in children of eight, seven, or even three or four years of age, in a spontaneous manner without any external excitation. Lombroso mentions the case of a girl three years old who ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel



Words linked to "Nymphomania" :   concupiscence, sexual desire, nymphomaniacal, eros



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