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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Synonym of petplay (“a fetish activity in which one takes on the role of an animal, sometimes as the pet of another”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, sexology, sexuality
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Synonyms: petplay
Antonyms: none provided
History
From auto- (“reflexive, regarding or to oneself”) + zoophilia (“the human sexual attraction to non-human animals”). Coined in 2009 by the American psychologist, sexologist and physician Anne Lawrence.
