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Nymphomania (Nympho; female; mania; abnormal craving for an act or object) is the term used for women who have an insatiable appetite for sex.
Nymphomania from (andromania, arrhenothigmophilous, clitoromania, Coitolimia, Furor uternus, Hyperphilia, Idiosyncrat, Lagnoperissia, Pareuomania, Sex addiction) .
Nympho or Nymphomania
Hirschfeld cited the case of a young man who had his marriage annulled after six weeks of the marriage the husband had not more than an hour's sleep per night as the woman always prevented him from falling asleep by various sexual manipulations... she compelled him to engage in the sexual act for hours and when this became impossible owing to repeated discharges she demanded that he should manipulate with his fingers for hours, until, as he says, his farms ached" (sexual anomalies and Perversions, by Magnus Hirschefld, p. 105)
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Common male fantasies have always included hat of finding a nymphomaniac. These were often portrayed in art as water nymphs who floated in waves near the shore, sirens who sat on rocks and enticed sailors with their beautiful voices, and mermaids who swam near boars; all were believed to lure men to their death. Threats of death no longer loom in the minds of impassioned men, but seduction by a nymphomaniac is still thought to have negative consequences. Dr. charles wahl reports that emotional reality of men who have found their real-life nymphomaniac; "curiously enough, encounters with the real thing; that is, a true nymphomania, do not live up to either literary or personal fantasies. On several occasions when patients have described experiences with so-called nymphomanics and on other occasions when I have been told of such experiences by friends or acquaintances, they have turned out to be both unpleasant and anxiety-producing for the men involved. The inability to gratify such women and the demands for further experience have mobilized whatever fears and anxieties these men have had, no matter how latent, regarding their sexual adequacy-an, in the case of patients, severe castration anxiety , not to mention an unpleasant state of physical exhaustion".
NYMPHOMANIA HISTORY
Jews tried to guarantee wives sexual satisfaction while still taking the husband's physical imitations into consideration. The Code of Jewish Law did this by regulating sexual performance according to a husband's profession. "Men of a strong constitution who enjoy the pleasure of life, having profitable pursuits at home and are tax exempt, should perform their marital duty nightly. Laborers who work in the town where they were raised, should perform their marital duty twice weekly; but if they are employed in another town, only once a week. Men who convey freight on camels from distant places, should attend to their marital duty once in thirty days: (Chapter 150, p. 15).
Religious vindictiveness has always warned men about the females as a perpetrator. Such warnings included: "Chronic conditions of nymphomania are apt to weaken public morality and led to offenses against decency. woe unto the man who falls into the meshes of such an insatiable nymphomaniac, who's sexual appetite is never appeased. Heavy neurasthenia and impotence are the inevitable consequences. These unfortunate women disseminate the spirit of lewdness, demoralize their surroundings, become a danger to boys, and are liable to corrupt girls also, for their are homosexual nymphomaniacs as well. (Psychopathia sexuality, by Krafft-ebing, pp. 323-3).
Nymphomania was considered even more dangerous for the woman herself, being on occasion potentially lethal. The most extreme cases, involving "acute deadly nymphomania" were likewise cited by Richard von Krafft-ebing, a neurologist and psychiatrists who lived during the late 19th century. However, the cases cited are viewed with skepticism as they offered no proof of validity as to the women's cause of death being nymphomania.
NYMPHOMANIA TODAY
More commonly the word is used by men to describe a woman who has multiple partners such as in the swingers lifestyle or cuckold relationship or a greater sexual appetite than they themselves can handle. Most people only suffer from this condition periodically, and it is rarely considered serious in itself. Since there are wide variances in the number of times people engage in sex, the is no quantified definition that is associated with nymphomania.
Furthermore, nympho and nymphonania today is used as a term of indearment towards a spouse, ( male or female ). This is usually heard in specialized lifestyles and role playing such as;
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