Formicophilia?

I would be remiss in my duties as an ant blogger to not pass this on from NCBI ROFL:

Transcultural sexology: formicophilia*, a newly named paraphilia in a young Buddhist male.


*The sexual interest in being crawled upon or nibbled by small insects, such as ants

Abstract: Children whose species-specific, juvenile sexual rehearsal play is thwarted or traumatized are at risk for developing a compensatory paraphilia. The case of a Buddhist male exemplifies the cross-cultural application of this principle. His syndrome, formicophilia, was endogenously generated without reference to or influence by commercial pornography. The complete causal explanation of paraphilia will require both a phylogenetic (phylismic) and an ontogenetic (life-history) component. The treatment of paraphilia may combine an antiandrogenic hormone with sexological counseling.

In spite of what I know you're all thinking, this is not what goes on at myrmecology meetings. We have other ways of amusing ourselves.

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Haha! There's something about that in the Clive Barker novel "The Great and Secret Show." It's also connected with Eastern Mysticism, or at least mysticism in general. A wizard who partially derives his power from prohibitions (he can't touch his own business) needs to produce some fluids for a hideous rite, so he telepathically commands bugs to crawl on him. Well... Nuff said.

By CS Shelton (not verified) on 14 Apr 2010 #permalink