Portnoy's Complaint

Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful, as a consequence of the patient's ",morality,", however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retr ...