See Also: Scoptophilia(health)

legislature (iou) and Scoptophilia (health)


legislature (iou)



legislature noun. L17.
[from LEGISLATOR + -URE, after JUDICATURE.]
The power that makes or enacts laws; a body of people empowered to make or enact the laws of a country or State. L17.
W. Lippmann The existing laws of property and contracts had not been formally enacted by a legislature.
The Exercise of the power of legislation. E-M18.

Scoptophilia (health)


Or scopophilia. A paraphilia of the solicitational/ allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent on watching others engaging in sexual activity, including sexual intercourse. the condition in which a person is dependent on looking at sexual organs and watching their coital performance in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate and achieve orgasm. It is not surreptitious, as in voyeurism. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is sometimes also referred to as scoptophilia; or by its own name, autagonistophilia.