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  • I made up the term "exophilia," but it was to describe something already flourishing like a tumor in my brain.

    Jan Herman: Supervert Gets Into Her Head 2010

  • I made up the term "exophilia," but it was to describe something already flourishing like a tumor in my brain.

    Jan Herman: Supervert Gets Into Her Head 2010

  • Things are getting weird out there, so much so that imaginary obsessions such as exophilia, the "abnormal attraction [to] beings from worlds beyond earth" that is the subject of the underground novel Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish, are starting to sound downright plausible.

    Boing Boing: October 2, 2005 - October 8, 2005 Archives 2005

  • So we have a highly questionable definition of the term 'exophilia', followed by an author implying knowledge of the relative pervasiveness of the phenomenon, past and present.

    Exophilia Cliff Pickover 2006

  • Of all unusual and unpopular practices, why did you choose exophilia and necrophilia?

    Jan Herman: Supervert Gets Into Her Head 2010

  • Of all unusual and unpopular practices, why did you choose exophilia and necrophilia?

    Jan Herman: Supervert Gets Into Her Head 2010

  • "The 2001 book Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish by Supervert defines exophilia specifically as an erotic attraction to extraterrestrial beings and describes at length a character afflicted by this fetish."

    Exophilia Cliff Pickover 2006

  • So, Wikipedia deleted exophilia once I added to it, huh?

    Exophilia Cliff Pickover 2006

  • The 2001 book Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish by Supervert defines exophilia specifically as an erotic attraction to extraterrestrial beings and describes at length a character afflicted by this fetish.

    Exophilia Cliff Pickover 2006

  • Mythos from other cultures tell of spirit/alien/demigod/etc. couplings with humans that are sexual in nature, which gives hint that perhaps at one time exophilia was possibly more common.

    Exophilia Cliff Pickover 2006

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  • A neologism describing sexual attraction to aliens or, less directly, representations of aliens.

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    December 6, 2008