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#71013 05/23/02 03:24 PM
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Standing on the corner, watching all the girls go by. What is the word for the prime mental activity of the guys? If an ecdysiast is a stripper, what's a guy who mentally strips girls?
In addition to being a beastly cad, that it.

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And for the of course purely hypothetical case of a woman who does the same to men, what would be the word?


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I have a word, and it fits both sexes. (With a pan underneath.........)


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Dear SilkMuse:

http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=41979

I suspect you'll enjoy reading that thread as much as I did.


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The word I started with was "Apodyopsis". Let's see someone make a better one. How would
"telecdysis" work?


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yes, the over-imaginative ogler is suffering from apodyopsis, the act or habit of mentally undressing a person or fantasizing what *he or she* looks like naked.

not to be confused with gymnophoria, the sense that someone is mentally undressing you, or that a person is viewing you naked even though you are clothed.

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gymnophoria, the sense that someone is mentally undressing you, or that a person is viewing you naked even though you are clothed

and if you like the person who is 'undressing' you, you may feel a sense of gymneuphoria



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