Hybristophilia is a paraphilia involving sexual arousal by people who have committed crimes, in particular cruel or outrageous crimes.
The sexologist John Money defines hybristophilia as:
- "a paraphilia of the marauding/predatory type in which sexuerotic arousal and facilitation and attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on being with a partner known to have committed an outrage or crime, such as rape, murder, or armed robbery"
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