Zoophilia (disambiguation)
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The term zoophilia may refer to:
- Zoophilia - in sexology and popular use, where zoophilia has a variety of meanings, revolving around affinity, affection, or erotic attraction between a human being, and a (non-human) animal. Notably, and confusingly, it can refer to both the general emotional-erotic attraction to animals, or to the specific psychological paraphilia of the same name.
- See also zoosexuality, for discussion of the sexual orientation in psychology.
- Animal love - the term 'zoophilia' can also mean literally "love of animals".
- Zoophily - in botany, zoophilia (or zoophily) is the tendency to feed or grow on animal tissue, such as the adaptation made by phanerogam plants to ensure pollination with the help of animals.
