Tell me you love me (part one)
A
abasiophilia: sexual attraction to people with walking disabilities, such as people wearing leg braces, plaster or fibreglass orthopedic casts, or people in wheelchairs.
acrotomophilia: sexual attraction to amputees
agalmatophilia: sexual attraction to statues or mannequins or immobility
ailurophilia: Love of cats
amaurophilia: sexual arousal by a partner whom one is unable to see due to artificial means, such as being blindfolded or having sex in total darkness.
ammophilia: Love of sand and sandy places
androphilia: Love of men
andromimetophilia: Love of women dressed as men
anglophilia: Love of English and/or England (and often British and/or Britain)
anthophilia: Attraction to flowers
apodysophilia: Desire to undress, see also nudism
apotemnophilia: Desire to amputate a healthy limb
aquaphilia: arousal from water and/or in watery environments, including swimming pools
aretifism: sexual attraction to people who are without footwear, in contrast to retifism
arctophilia: Love of Teddy Bears
asphyxiophilia: sexual attraction to asphyxia; also called autoerotic asphyxiation
astrophilia: Love of astronomy and/or outer space in general
asiaphilia: Love of Asian culture and/or women/men
audiophilia: Love of recorded sound
Australophilia: Love of Australians and/or Australia (lit. love of the south)
autogynephilia: Love of oneself as a woman
autovoxiphilia: Love of one's own voice
B
biastophilia: sexual pleasure from committing rape
bibliophilia: Love of books
biophilia: Love of nature
C
cacophonophilia: Love of harsh sounds
cagophilia: Love of keys
canidaephilia: Sexual attraction/orientation to canines
canophilia: Love of dogs
cartophilia: Love of cigarette cards
chasmophilia: Love of small places
chelonaphilia: Love of turtles
chiropterophilia: Love of bats
chocroplastraphilia: sexual arousal from being struck (with either fist or foot) in the genital region.
chrysophilia: Love of gold
claustrophilia: Love of enclosed spaces
clinophilia: Love of beds
coprophilia: Sexual pleasure from feces
crurophilia: Love of legs
cypripareuniaphilia: Love of prostitutes
D
dacryphilia: sexual pleasure in eliciting tears from others or oneself
dendrophilia: Love of trees
discophilia: Love of sound recordings
E
ecdysiophilia: Love of watching people strip
emetophilia: sexual attraction to vomit
ephebophilia: Sexual attraction towards adolescents
eproctophilia: sexual attraction to flatulence
ergophilia: Love of work
Europhilia: Love of Europe and/or Europeans
F
Francophilia, Gallophilia: Love of France and/or the French
frotteurism: sexual arousal through rubbing one's self against a non-consenting stranger in public
forniphilia: Love of making furniture from humans in bondage.
G
galactophilia: sexual attraction to human milk or lactating women
geophilia: Love of earth or geology
Germanophilia: Love of Germany and/or German
gerontophilia: Sexual attraction towards the elderly
glossophilia: Love of languages
gynephilia: Love of women
gynotikolobomassophilia: Love of biting a female's earlobes
H
halophilia: Love of salt or salt-water
harpaxophilia: sexual arousal from being robbed
heliophilia: Love of sunlight
hematolagnia: sexual attraction to blood
hippophilia: Love of horses
harpaxophilia: Love of being a robbery victim
hirsutophilia: Love of hairy men
homophilia: Love of the same sex (i.e. homosexuality)
Hoplophilia: Sexual arousal from firearms and weaponry
hybristophilia: sexual arousal to people who have committed crimes, in particular cruel or outrageous crimes
hydrophilia: Love of water
hygrophilia: Love of living next to or spending time around water
I
iconophilia: Love of pictures and symbols
insulaphilia: Love of islands
Islandophilia: Love of Iceland, Icelandic culture, etc.
J
Japonophilia: Love of Japan
K
klismaphilia: Sexual pleasure from enemas
korophilia: Love of young men or boys
L
lavacultophilia: Desire to stare at someone in a bathing suit
lexiconophilia: Love of dictionaries and wordbooks
limnophilia: Love of ponds or marshes
lithophilia: Love of stones
logophilia: Love of words and reading
lygophilia: Love of darkness
M
Macrophilia: Sexual attraction to giants and large things
maiesiophilia: Sexual attraction to childbirth or pregnant women
maimouphilia, pithikosophilia: Love of monkeys
malophilia: Love of apples
mechaphilia: Sexual attraction to mechanical objects
megamalophilia: Extreme love of apples, or love of the Big Apple
metrophilia: Love of the metro rail or subway systems
Microphilia: Sexual attraction to small things and things of smaller size
Mysophilia: Love of feces or to foul and decaying material
myrmecophilia: Love of ants
N
nanophilia: Love of short people
necrophilia: Sexual attraction to corpses
necropedophilia: love of young dead people
necrozoophilia: sexual attraction to the corpses or killings of animals (also known as necrobestiality)
negrophilia: Love of black people
nemophilia: Love of the woods/forests
neophilia: Love of the latest novelties and trends
Nipponophilia: Love of the Japanese and/or Japan
nitrophilia: Love of nitrogen and explosions
notaphilia: Love of bank-notes and cheques
nyctophilia: A preference for darkness or night.
O
oenophilia: Love of Wine
ombrophilia: Love of large amounts of rainfall
ophiophilia: Love of snakes
ornithophilia: Love of birds
osmophilia: Love of various smells
P
paedophilia: Sexual attraction to children
palaeophilia: Love of dinosaurs and prehistoric things
paraphilia: Any sexual attraction considered unusual or taboo
parthenophilia: Love of virgins
pedophilia: Sexual attraction to children
peristerophilia: Love of pigeons
petrophilia: Love of living or spending time in rocky areas
philophilia: Love of love
photophilia: Love of living or spending time in lighted conditions
phytophilia: Love of plants
pictophilia: inability to become sexually aroused except through the use of pictorial pornography
piscaphilia: Love of fish
plushophilia: sexual attraction to stuffed toys or people in animal costume, such as theme park characters
pogonophilia: Love of beards
psychrophilia: Love of cold temperatures
pygophilia: Love of buttocks
pyrophilia: sexual arousal through watching, setting, hearing/talking/fantasizing about fire.
Q
R
retifism (restifism): shoe fetish
retrophilia: Love of things of the past
rheophilia: Love of living or spending time in running water
rhinophilia: Love of noses
rhizophilia: Love of living or spending time on roots
Russophilia: Love of Russia and/or Russians
S
sapophilia: Love of researching paraphilia
sarcophilia: Love of flesh
sciophilia: Love of living or spending time in shady conditions
Scopophilia: Sexual pleasure from seeing things
Scotophilia: Love of Scotland and/or the Scottish
scripophilia: Love of bond and share certificates
Sinophilia: Love of China and/or the Chinese
sitophilia: sexual arousal from food
stegophilia: Love of climbing buildings
stigmatophilia: Love of tattooing or branding
T
teratophilia: sexual attraction to deformed or monstrous people
technophilia: Love of technology
thalassophilia: Love of the ocean
theophilia: Love of a God
thermophilia: Love of high temperatures; thriving in high temperatures (e.g. microbes)
threpterophilia: Love of female nurses
timbrophilia: Love of stamps
tobaccophilia: Love of tobacco
toonophilia: sexual attraction to cartoons
topophilia: Love of a particular place
toxophilia: Love of archery
trichophilia: Love of hair
triolism: sexual arousal from the idea of three-party sex
tropophilia: Love of seasonal extremes of climate
turophilia: Love of cheese
typhlophilia: Love of the blind
U
V
velophilia: Sexual attraction to bicycles
vorarephilia: sexual attraction to being eaten by or eating another person
W
X
xenophilia: Love of foreigners (in science-fiction, can also mean sexual attraction to aliens)
xerophilia: Love of living or spending time in very dry conditions
xylophilia: Love of wood
xyrophilia: Love or attraction to blades and razors
Z
zoophilia: Love of non-human animals
zebrophilia: Love of zebras
Other words
There are a number of words that contain the same -philia suffix, but which are not a human love for something
electrophile: A substance having an affinity for electrons or negative charge
entomophilous: Adapted for pollination by insects
hemophilia: A disease relating to blood clotting
lipophilic: A substance that is attracted to lipids, as in cell membranes.
nucleophile:A substance having an affinity for positive charge; antyonym of electrophile.
psammophilia: A plant loving sandy areas
A
abasiophilia: sexual attraction to people with walking disabilities, such as people wearing leg braces, plaster or fibreglass orthopedic casts, or people in wheelchairs.
acrotomophilia: sexual attraction to amputees
agalmatophilia: sexual attraction to statues or mannequins or immobility
ailurophilia: Love of cats
amaurophilia: sexual arousal by a partner whom one is unable to see due to artificial means, such as being blindfolded or having sex in total darkness.
ammophilia: Love of sand and sandy places
androphilia: Love of men
andromimetophilia: Love of women dressed as men
anglophilia: Love of English and/or England (and often British and/or Britain)
anthophilia: Attraction to flowers
apodysophilia: Desire to undress, see also nudism
apotemnophilia: Desire to amputate a healthy limb
aquaphilia: arousal from water and/or in watery environments, including swimming pools
aretifism: sexual attraction to people who are without footwear, in contrast to retifism
arctophilia: Love of Teddy Bears
asphyxiophilia: sexual attraction to asphyxia; also called autoerotic asphyxiation
astrophilia: Love of astronomy and/or outer space in general
asiaphilia: Love of Asian culture and/or women/men
audiophilia: Love of recorded sound
Australophilia: Love of Australians and/or Australia (lit. love of the south)
autogynephilia: Love of oneself as a woman
autovoxiphilia: Love of one's own voice
B
biastophilia: sexual pleasure from committing rape
bibliophilia: Love of books
biophilia: Love of nature
C
cacophonophilia: Love of harsh sounds
cagophilia: Love of keys
canidaephilia: Sexual attraction/orientation to canines
canophilia: Love of dogs
cartophilia: Love of cigarette cards
chasmophilia: Love of small places
chelonaphilia: Love of turtles
chiropterophilia: Love of bats
chocroplastraphilia: sexual arousal from being struck (with either fist or foot) in the genital region.
chrysophilia: Love of gold
claustrophilia: Love of enclosed spaces
clinophilia: Love of beds
coprophilia: Sexual pleasure from feces
crurophilia: Love of legs
cypripareuniaphilia: Love of prostitutes
D
dacryphilia: sexual pleasure in eliciting tears from others or oneself
dendrophilia: Love of trees
discophilia: Love of sound recordings
E
ecdysiophilia: Love of watching people strip
emetophilia: sexual attraction to vomit
ephebophilia: Sexual attraction towards adolescents
eproctophilia: sexual attraction to flatulence
ergophilia: Love of work
Europhilia: Love of Europe and/or Europeans
F
Francophilia, Gallophilia: Love of France and/or the French
frotteurism: sexual arousal through rubbing one's self against a non-consenting stranger in public
forniphilia: Love of making furniture from humans in bondage.
G
galactophilia: sexual attraction to human milk or lactating women
geophilia: Love of earth or geology
Germanophilia: Love of Germany and/or German
gerontophilia: Sexual attraction towards the elderly
glossophilia: Love of languages
gynephilia: Love of women
gynotikolobomassophilia: Love of biting a female's earlobes
H
halophilia: Love of salt or salt-water
harpaxophilia: sexual arousal from being robbed
heliophilia: Love of sunlight
hematolagnia: sexual attraction to blood
hippophilia: Love of horses
harpaxophilia: Love of being a robbery victim
hirsutophilia: Love of hairy men
homophilia: Love of the same sex (i.e. homosexuality)
Hoplophilia: Sexual arousal from firearms and weaponry
hybristophilia: sexual arousal to people who have committed crimes, in particular cruel or outrageous crimes
hydrophilia: Love of water
hygrophilia: Love of living next to or spending time around water
I
iconophilia: Love of pictures and symbols
insulaphilia: Love of islands
Islandophilia: Love of Iceland, Icelandic culture, etc.
J
Japonophilia: Love of Japan
K
klismaphilia: Sexual pleasure from enemas
korophilia: Love of young men or boys
L
lavacultophilia: Desire to stare at someone in a bathing suit
lexiconophilia: Love of dictionaries and wordbooks
limnophilia: Love of ponds or marshes
lithophilia: Love of stones
logophilia: Love of words and reading
lygophilia: Love of darkness
M
Macrophilia: Sexual attraction to giants and large things
maiesiophilia: Sexual attraction to childbirth or pregnant women
maimouphilia, pithikosophilia: Love of monkeys
malophilia: Love of apples
mechaphilia: Sexual attraction to mechanical objects
megamalophilia: Extreme love of apples, or love of the Big Apple
metrophilia: Love of the metro rail or subway systems
Microphilia: Sexual attraction to small things and things of smaller size
Mysophilia: Love of feces or to foul and decaying material
myrmecophilia: Love of ants
N
nanophilia: Love of short people
necrophilia: Sexual attraction to corpses
necropedophilia: love of young dead people
necrozoophilia: sexual attraction to the corpses or killings of animals (also known as necrobestiality)
negrophilia: Love of black people
nemophilia: Love of the woods/forests
neophilia: Love of the latest novelties and trends
Nipponophilia: Love of the Japanese and/or Japan
nitrophilia: Love of nitrogen and explosions
notaphilia: Love of bank-notes and cheques
nyctophilia: A preference for darkness or night.
O
oenophilia: Love of Wine
ombrophilia: Love of large amounts of rainfall
ophiophilia: Love of snakes
ornithophilia: Love of birds
osmophilia: Love of various smells
P
paedophilia: Sexual attraction to children
palaeophilia: Love of dinosaurs and prehistoric things
paraphilia: Any sexual attraction considered unusual or taboo
parthenophilia: Love of virgins
pedophilia: Sexual attraction to children
peristerophilia: Love of pigeons
petrophilia: Love of living or spending time in rocky areas
philophilia: Love of love
photophilia: Love of living or spending time in lighted conditions
phytophilia: Love of plants
pictophilia: inability to become sexually aroused except through the use of pictorial pornography
piscaphilia: Love of fish
plushophilia: sexual attraction to stuffed toys or people in animal costume, such as theme park characters
pogonophilia: Love of beards
psychrophilia: Love of cold temperatures
pygophilia: Love of buttocks
pyrophilia: sexual arousal through watching, setting, hearing/talking/fantasizing about fire.
Q
R
retifism (restifism): shoe fetish
retrophilia: Love of things of the past
rheophilia: Love of living or spending time in running water
rhinophilia: Love of noses
rhizophilia: Love of living or spending time on roots
Russophilia: Love of Russia and/or Russians
S
sapophilia: Love of researching paraphilia
sarcophilia: Love of flesh
sciophilia: Love of living or spending time in shady conditions
Scopophilia: Sexual pleasure from seeing things
Scotophilia: Love of Scotland and/or the Scottish
scripophilia: Love of bond and share certificates
Sinophilia: Love of China and/or the Chinese
sitophilia: sexual arousal from food
stegophilia: Love of climbing buildings
stigmatophilia: Love of tattooing or branding
T
teratophilia: sexual attraction to deformed or monstrous people
technophilia: Love of technology
thalassophilia: Love of the ocean
theophilia: Love of a God
thermophilia: Love of high temperatures; thriving in high temperatures (e.g. microbes)
threpterophilia: Love of female nurses
timbrophilia: Love of stamps
tobaccophilia: Love of tobacco
toonophilia: sexual attraction to cartoons
topophilia: Love of a particular place
toxophilia: Love of archery
trichophilia: Love of hair
triolism: sexual arousal from the idea of three-party sex
tropophilia: Love of seasonal extremes of climate
turophilia: Love of cheese
typhlophilia: Love of the blind
U
V
velophilia: Sexual attraction to bicycles
vorarephilia: sexual attraction to being eaten by or eating another person
W
X
xenophilia: Love of foreigners (in science-fiction, can also mean sexual attraction to aliens)
xerophilia: Love of living or spending time in very dry conditions
xylophilia: Love of wood
xyrophilia: Love or attraction to blades and razors
Z
zoophilia: Love of non-human animals
zebrophilia: Love of zebras
Other words
There are a number of words that contain the same -philia suffix, but which are not a human love for something
electrophile: A substance having an affinity for electrons or negative charge
entomophilous: Adapted for pollination by insects
hemophilia: A disease relating to blood clotting
lipophilic: A substance that is attracted to lipids, as in cell membranes.
nucleophile:A substance having an affinity for positive charge; antyonym of electrophile.
psammophilia: A plant loving sandy areas