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troilism

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troilism [ˈtrɔɪlɪzəm]
n
sexual activity involving three people
[perhaps from French trois three (compare ménage à trois) + -l-, as in dualism]
troilist  adj
Translations
troilism
n, no pl (form)Troilismus m


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The saving grace for Haffenden's publishers seems to have been Empson's perverse encouragement of his wife's infidelity and his attachment to troilism.
In "The Onomastic Destiny of Stanley Fish," Marshall Grossman imitates Fish by connecting the "trans-mat mishap" of The Fly (37-38) to Morris's troilism being Zapped and "Fish" being "groped and tickled" (37) by John Bunyan while arguing that "Fish leaves his mark on the text .
There is incest and bestiality, coprophilia and coprophagia, sadism, masochism, troilism, frotteurism and the most outrageous display of onanistic exhibitionism since Genesis 38.
 
 
 
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