Dendrophilia (paraphilia)

An artist's representation of dendrophilia

Dendrophilia (or less often arborphilia or dendrophily) literally means "love of trees". The term may sometimes refer to a paraphilia in which people are sexually attracted to or sexually aroused by trees. This may involve sexual contact or veneration as phallic symbols or both.[1] Andrew Marvell made poetry using dendrophilic themes.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Corsini, Raymond J. (1999). The Dictionary of Psychology. Psychology Press. p. 263. ISBN 1-58391-028-X.
  2. ^ Cornes, Saskia C. C. (2017). Literature of Landscape: The Enclosure Movement in the Seventeenth Century English Imagination (Thesis). doi:10.7916/D8571KMG.
  3. ^ Reid, D. (2014). The Metaphysical Poets. Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library. Taylor & Francis. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-317-88571-9. Retrieved 2023-02-26.