What do you call a sex maniac?
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Feb 22 19:40:27 UTC 2010
At 2/22/2010 02:25 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 12:22 PM -0500 2/22/10, Eric Nielsen wrote:
>>How about:
>>
>>player
>>horndog
>>satyrist
>
>I have the sense that the last of those may tend to be a victim of
>blocking by homonymy.
Also, as a student of the 18th century I resent a literary term being
misappropriated. :-)
There is satyriasis, why no satyriac (n) in the relevant sense?
Priapian?
Joel
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