Candaulism

Jean-Léon Gérôme : King Kandaules, his wife and her lover, 1859

The term candaulism was first used in 1886 by Richard von Krafft-Ebing in Psychopathia sexualis . He derived the name from Greek mythology from the Lydian king Kandaules , who showed his friend Gyges his undressed wife Nyssia without her knowing about it.

Von Krafft-Ebing used candaulism to denote a sexual preference in which a voyeuristic person experiences sexual arousal by imagining or watching their partner bare or have sexual intercourse with another person . A more common term for triangular relationships of this type is the ménage à trois . The terms wifesharing and cuckold are also common in the BDSM scene .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard von Krafft-Ebing: Psychopathia sexualis. A clinical forensic study. Enke, 1886.
2. ^ Society for the Scientific Study of Sex: Journal of sex research. Volume 27, 1990, p. 590.
3. ^ I. Herodotus, 8-13, retold by Friedrich Hebbel : Gyges und seine Ring and André Gide : Le roi Candaules
4. ↑ Brenda Love: The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices. Natl Book Network, 1994, ISBN 1-56980-011-1 , p. 50.
5. ^ Volkmar Sigusch : Neosexualities: about the cultural change of love and perversion. Campus Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-593-37724-1 , p. 104 (Explanation of words based on Suzi Godson: Das Buch vom Sex. Two thousand and one, 2003, ISBN 3-8077-0133-8 )
6. ↑ Brenda Love: The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices. Natl Book Network, 1994, ISBN 1-56980-011-1 , p. 76.