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Pygophile vs Pyrophile - What's the difference?

pygophile | pyrophile |

As nouns the difference between pygophile and pyrophile

is that pygophile is a person with an intense aesthetic and/or sexual preference for the human buttocks while pyrophile is a creature that likes and delights in the presence of fire.

pygophile

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person with an intense aesthetic and/or sexual preference for the human buttocks.
  • * 1985 , Barry Balwdin, Studies on Greek and Roman History and Literature , J.C. Gieben (1985), ISBN 9789070265090, page 357:
  • * 2008 , Dick Wimmer, The Wildly Irish Sextet , Soft Skull Press (2008), ISBN 9781593761813, page 129:
    • "And so is this," nuzzling down her buxom body and lustily gnawing these sleek, melonous swells.
    "Such a pygophile y'are."
  • * 2013 , Jesse Bering, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us , Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2013), ISBN 9780374230890, unnumbered page:
    • For example, my first exposure to an erotic outlier was with a hebephilic pygophile who also had a touch of frotteurism.

    Related terms

    * pygophilia

    pyrophile

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A creature that likes and delights in the presence of fire
  • (dated, rare) A person who accepts that the energy of volcanos originates from the heat of the Earth's interior
  • A pyromaniac