eroticistn.
/ɛˈrɒtɪsɪst/ a. A person who indulges in or exhibits erotic behaviour.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > person who is sexually aroused or excited
Venerean1612
eroticist1928
orgasmist1938
1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. Eroticist, one afflicted with erotomania.
1959 Encounter July 45/2 Homer told how Odysseus was loved..by Circe and Calypso; modern romanticists, generally ignoring Penelope, have made him into a second Don Juan..Eyvind Johnson in his Strändernas Svall reducing him to a worn-out eroticist.
1971 W. Hanley Blue Dreams xiii. 224 She was an eroticist of the first order!
1989 in Chicago Tribune 9 Apr. xiv. 7/4 The show was burdened with..the midnight defection of an entire family of animal eroticists, taking their donkey, goat and Great Dane with them.
b. A person who uses erotic or sexually arousing imagery in art, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > artist > in specific style
pictorialist1839
conventionalist1846
polychromatist1854
nudist1866
scholastic1892
archaicist1957
assemblagist1963
eroticist1965
conceptualist1970
orientalist1983
1965 New Statesman 24 Dec. 1010/3 The Robert Fraser Gallery intended to hold an exhibition of the work of Hans Bellmer, probably the most dedicated eroticist of our time.
1972 Times 25 Sept. 12/6 The Commodore Hotel, at Grand Central station, has been offering its guests a private film show... The most popular adult film..is Vixen, directed by Russ Meyer, the master eroticist.
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