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Definition of "frotteurism" [frotteurism]

  • The act of rubbing one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger. Must be non-consensual and is considered a psychiatric condition as well as a criminal offense in most places. (If consensual, it is known as frottage) (noun)
  • The need to rub one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger. (noun)

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Use "frotteurism" in a sentence
  • "Where sightseers once splashed about in silly algorithmic frotteurism, they will be treated this summer to an $85,000 community garden, whose “rural delights” will probably not go to supplement the nutritional needs of the disenfranchised but rather will go to make bloody marys and beer for architecture students."
  • "And if he gets his way, then there would be another occasion for textual frotteurism and iconographical link-orgy: a sculptural band of friezes in which we see the wannabe urban planner in the guise of the Angel of Modernism — Meier Dux, the liberator of the Eternal City from its own ancientness."
  • "The Eroticist is a 1972 Italian film by Lucio Fulci about a government official who suffers from frotteurism."
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