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Saliromania is a sexual fetish or paraphilia that involves deriving erotic pleasure from soiling or disheveling the object of one's desire, usually an attractive person. It may involve tearing or damaging their clothing, covering them in mud or filth, messing their hair or makeup. The fetish does not involve harming or injuring the subject, only their appearance.

While much of the literature focuses on white heterosexual male fetishists and female subjects, the topic is also well known in the gay male and lesbian communities and among a broad range of social classes. It is related to wet and messy fetishism, bukkake, mysophilia, urolagnia and coprophilia, but extends to other areas such a forcing the partner to wear torn or poorly fitting clothing and other actions which would render them normally unattractive.

The fetish sometimes manifests itself in the defacing of statues or pictures of attractive people, especially celebrities. The fetishist finds this sexually exciting, rather than mere vandalism. They sometimes form collections of defaced art for future enjoyment.

The term comes from the French for soiling, salir. In cases where the fetish is not obsessive it is called salirophilia. It is frequently confused with salophilia, an attraction to salt or salty things (especially body sweat) that derives from the latin for salt, sal.

[edit] References and further reading

• Galant, J.S.(1931) Über Saliromanie bei psychoneurotischen Kindern, Zt Sexualwiss & Sexualpolit 18:403-5
• Sexuality, Relationships, Intimacy and Mental Health (pdf)

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