satyriasis
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In the 2011 film Shame, McQueen and Fassbender offered a vividly clinical depiction of satyriasis, as a Manhattan office-worker cruises the streets, bars and subways for new conquests that never fulfill him.
From Time
The Two English Girls fatally in love with the same Frenchman, the young woman who turns unrequited passion into suicidal ecstasy in The Story of Adele H., the scientist afflicted with a sort of Peter Pan satyriasis in The Man Who Loved Women�all were captured under the glass of Truffaut's sympathetic scrutiny.
From Time Magazine Archive
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