Candaulism
In certain cases the relation evolves into a stable union of three persons that is known as ménage à trois. The term was first defined by Richard von Krafft-Ebbing in in his book: Psychopathia sexualis. After discovering Gyges while he was watching her naked, Candaules wife ordered him to choose between killing himself or killing her husband in order to repair the vicious mischief. Sometimes this behavior is taken to the point of allowing complete sexual relations, a practice defined by many English speaking people as swinging.According to Gugitz, the term is derived from ancient King Candaules who made a plot to show his unaware naked wife to his servant Gyges of Lydia. Candaulism is a sexual practice or fantasy in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their voyeuristic pleasure.
Senf proposed that candaulism should be thought of as a veiled form of homosexuality; Sadger hypothesized that the candaulist completely identifies with his partner s body, and deep in his mind is showing himself. . A related term is cuckoldry, which is distinct in that it involves a control difference between the partner that is having sex outside the couple and the partner who is not.
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