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Katoptronophilia is a paraphilia for mirrors (the Greek word for mirror is katoptron). It may include activities such as having sex in front of mirrors, masturbating in front of mirrors, enacting other paraphilias in front of a mirror, having an orgy in front of a mirror, or enacting stripping fetishism in front of mirrors. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A mirror, reflecting a vase. ... Look up Sex in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Masturbation is the manual excitation of the sexual organs, most often to the point of orgasm. ... Orgy. ...


Enacting katoptronophiliac fantasies may involve constructing environments for erotic activity in which one is completely surrounded by mirrors, sometimes including even on the ceiling. A person who is a katoptronophiliac may put mirrors all over their house so they can have sex in any room in the house.


Many pornographic films show porn stars having sex in front of mirrors. Many people enjoy having sex in front of mirrors and have mirrors in their bedrooms in which they can watch themselves have sex. Katoptronophilia would seem to be a benign, non-controversial and basically harmless paraphilia. (However it is important if one lives in an earthquake zone like San Francisco to be sure to use Mylar rather than glass for mirrors on the ceiling.) Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Porn Stars is an album by the band Pretty Boy Floyd (American). ... An earthquake is a phenomenon that results from the sudden release of stored energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Mylar is a trade name of DuPont Teijin Films of Hopewell, VA, United States, for biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) polyester film used for its high tensile strength, chemical and dimensional stability, transparency, and electrical insulation. ... Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colors as shown in this sphere from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany. ...


Further reading

Pendergast, Mark Mirror, Mirror: A History of the Human Love Affair with Reflection New York:2003 Basic Books Perseus Book Group ISBN 978-0-465-05470-1


 

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