erotization
Charging with desire
Erotization is the process of making something sexual or investing it with erotic significance.
Psychology uses the term for how objects, body parts, or situations acquire sexual meaning: the erotization of power dynamics, the erotization of the female body in advertising.
The variant spelling eroticization is equally common.
Intense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- lustIntense carnal appetite
- arousalStirring to heightened state
attraction · seduction · temptation · infatuation · obsession · appetite · hunger · thirst
Emotional closeness between people
- pleasureHappy, satisfied feeling
- titillationPleasurable, teasing excitement
- sultrinessOppressive humid heat
- seductivenessPower to entice
provocativeness · carnality · voluptuousness · sensuality · ecstasy · stimulation · arousal · foreplay
Faculty for forming ideas
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- escapismHabitual mental retreat
- romanticizationPortraying as more appealing
- idealizationRegarding as perfect
projection · voyeurism · exhibitionism · roleplay · scenario · taboo · forbidden · transgression
Innate erotic drive
- sublimationSolid to gas directly
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
- fetishismFixation on specific objects
fixation · neurosis · psychoanalysis · Freudian · unconscious · instinct · drive · id
longing
Intense, persistent desire
arousal · attraction · seduction · temptation · infatuation · obsession · appetite · hunger · thirst · urge
intimacy
Emotional closeness between people
- pleasureHappy, satisfied feeling
- titillationPleasurable, teasing excitement
- sultrinessOppressive humid heat
seductiveness · provocativeness · carnality · voluptuousness · sensuality · ecstasy · stimulation · arousal · foreplay · flirtation
imagination
Faculty for forming ideas
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- escapismHabitual mental retreat
- romanticizationPortraying as more appealing
idealization · projection · voyeurism · exhibitionism · roleplay · scenario · taboo · forbidden · transgression · mystique
libido
Innate erotic drive
- sublimationSolid to gas directly
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
fetishism · fixation · neurosis · psychoanalysis · Freudian · unconscious · instinct · drive · id · taboo
erotizationasexualization
Removing sexual attributes
desensitization · sanitization · bowdlerization · purification · censorship
erotizationsacralization
Imbuing with holiness
spiritualization · sanctification · consecration · idealization · transcendence
erotic, eros, eroticism, homoerotic, erotica, erogenous, autoerotic