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{{short description|Paraphilia associated with urine or urination}}
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}}'''Urolagnia''', also known as '''urophilia''', is a [[paraphilia]] in which [[sexual excitement]] is associated with [[urine]] or [[urination]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands_split.jsp?pg=/ppdocs/us/common/dorlands/dorland/eight/000113596.htm|title=MerckEngage - Healthy Living Tips and Health Information|access-date=26 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824034045/http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands_split.jsp?pg=%2Fppdocs%2Fus%2Fcommon%2Fdorlands%2Fdorland%2Feight%2F000113596.htm|archive-date=24 August 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="Balon">{{cite book|vauthors =Balon R|title =Practical Guide to Paraphilia and Paraphilic Disorders|isbn = 978-3319426501|publisher=[[Springer Publishing|Springer]]|year=2016|page=188}}</ref><ref name="O'Donohue">{{cite book|vauthors =Laws DR, O'Donohue WT|title=Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment|year=2012 |pages=395, 403|publisher=[[Guilford Press]]|isbn=978-1462506699}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/urolagnia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916220943/https://www.lexico.com/definition/urolagnia|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 16, 2021|title=Meaning of urolagnia in English|website=Lexico Dictionaries}}</ref> Etymologically, the term comes from the Greek {{transliteration|grc|ouron}}, meaning 'urine', and {{transliteration|grc|lagneia}}, meaning 'lust'.<ref name="ency">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofpsyc00colm_0 |title=A Dictionary of Psychology |last=Colman |first=Andrew M. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-19-280632-1 |access-date=2009-01-08 }}</ref><ref name="O'Donohue" />  A '''golden shower''' is slang for the practice of urinating on another person for sexual pleasure, while the term '''watersports''' is more inclusive of other sexual acts involving urine.

Sexual acts may involve urine being ingested or bathed in, urinating on another person or item (such as [[Nocturnal enuresis|bedwetting]]), and self-soiling. Other expressions of urolagnia may primarily involve the smell of urine.

[[Omorashi]], a [[Fetishism|fetish]] for having a full [[Urinary bladder|bladder]] or someone else experiencing the discomfort or pain of a full bladder, is sometimes considered part of urolagnia.

==Frequency==
A 2007 study counted members of Internet discussion groups with the word fetish in their name; of the groups about body parts or features, 9% belonged to groups about [[body fluid]]s (including but not limited to urolagnia).<ref name="scorolli">{{cite journal |last1=Scorolli |first1=C. |last2=Ghirlanda |first2=S. |last3=Enquist |first3=M. |last4=Zattoni |first4=S. |last5=Jannini |first5=E. |author5-link=Emmanuele A. Jannini |year=2007 |title=Relative prevalence of different fetishes |journal=International Journal of Impotence Research |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=432–437 |doi=10.1038/sj.ijir.3901547 |pmid=17304204 |doi-access=}}</ref>

Jennifer Eve Rehor of [[San Francisco State University]] points out that such data as exists on what she calls "unconventional" or "[[kink (sexuality)|kink]]" sexual behavior is generally problematic because of the way that it has been collected, through criminal and clinical case studies.<ref name="Rehor2015">{{cite journal |first=Jennifer Eve |last=Rehor |year=2015 |title=Sensual, Erotic, and Sexual Behaviors of Women from the 'Kink' Community |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=825–836 |doi=10.1007/s10508-015-0524-2|pmid=25795531 |pmc=4379392 }}</ref> Behavior that appears neither in criminal trials nor in clinical studies (for example, because the individuals concerned do not commonly seek professional help) is therefore under-reported. Rehor therefore surveyed 1,764 female participants in "kink" behavior (mostly association with [[BDSM]]) in 2010–11, receiving 1,580 valid responses. What Rehor calls "urine play" is relatively infrequent, with only 36.52% of her sample reporting having done it or having had it done to them. In contrast, 93.99% of her sample reported having done [[spanking]] or having had it done to them, and  61.96% reported having used or been exposed to [[feathers]]/[[fur]].<ref name="Rehor2015" /> It is impossible to extrapolate Rehor's data onto the general population, as the habits of the general population are different than participants in “kink", but her study does give a guide to prevalence in the North American BDSM community.

In [[Channel 4]]'s 2017 nationwide Great British Sex Survey, watersports (meaning urolagnia) was ranked ninth in popularity among sexual fetishes in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/26/last-nights-tv-great-british-sex-survey|title=The Great British Sex Survey review: the nation's fetishes get aired in all their gory glory|first=Lucy|last=Mangan|newspaper=The Guardian |date=February 26, 2016|access-date=July 16, 2019|archive-date=July 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716141417/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/26/last-nights-tv-great-british-sex-survey|url-status=live}}</ref>

== In psychiatry ==
The [[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders#DSM-III-R .281987.29|DSM-III-R]] (1987) version of the ''[[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]]'' (DSM) renamed atypical [[paraphilia]] to paraphilia NOS (not otherwise specified), and provided seven nonexhaustive examples of NOS paraphilias, which included urolagnia.<ref>{{cite book |first=D. Richard |last=Laws |editor-first=William T. |editor-last=O'Donohue |editor-link=William T. O'Donohue |title=Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment |page=385 |edition=2nd |publisher=Guilford Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-59385-605-2}}</ref> [[Other specified paraphilic disorder]] is the term currently used by the fifth edition of the ''[[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]]'' ([[DSM-5]]) to refer to any of the many other [[paraphilic disorder]]s that are not explicitly named in the manual, including urolagnia.<ref name="DSM-5">{{cite book | title = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |edition=5th | chapter = Other Specified Paraphilic Disorder, 302.89 (F65.89) | year = 2013 | publisher = American Psychiatric Association | page = 705}}</ref> In order to be diagnosable, the interest must be recurrent and intense, present for at least six months, and cause marked distress or impairment in important areas of functioning.<ref name="DSM-5" /> When a specific paraphilic disorder cannot be identified or the clinician chooses not to specify it for some other reason, the ''unspecified paraphilic disorder'' diagnosis may be used instead.<ref>{{cite book | title = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |edition=5th | chapter = Unspecified Paraphilic Disorder, 302.9 (F65.9) | publisher = American Psychiatric Association | year = 2013 | page = 705}}</ref>

[[Paraphilia]]s such as urolagnia have been described as [[sexual fetishism|fetishes]].<ref name="kafka">{{cite journal | last = Kafka |first= M. P. | year = 2010 | title = The DSM diagnostic criteria for fetishism | journal = Archives of Sexual Behavior | volume = 39 | issue = 2 | pages = 357–362 | doi=10.1007/s10508-009-9558-7 | pmid=19795202| s2cid = 22820928 }}</ref> On 18 June 2018, the WHO ([[World Health Organization]]) published [[ICD-11]], in which Fetishism is now removed as a psychiatric diagnosis. Moreover, discrimination against fetish-having (and [[BDSM]]) individuals is considered inconsistent with human rights principles endorsed by the United Nations and The World Health Organization.<ref name=":ICD1">{{Cite journal|last1=Krueger|first1=Richard B.|last2=Reed|first2=Geoffrey M.|last3=First|first3=Michael B.|last4=Marais|first4=Adele|last5=Kismodi|first5=Eszter|last6=Briken|first6=Peer|date=2017|title=Proposals for Paraphilic Disorders in the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11)|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=46|issue=5|pages=1529–1545|doi=10.1007/s10508-017-0944-2|issn=0004-0002|pmc=5487931|pmid=28210933}}</ref>

== Physical health ==
The [[World Health Organization]] has found that the pathogens contained in urine rarely pose a health risk. However, it does caution that in areas where ''[[Schistosoma haematobium]]'', a parasitic flatworm, is prevalent, it can be transmitted from person to person.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schönning |first=Caroline |title=Urine diversion – hygienic risks and microbial guidelines for reuse |url=https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/wastewater/urineguidelines.pdf |access-date=February 15, 2022 |publisher=World Health Organization |page=13 }}</ref>

==In media==
A table in [[Larry Townsend]]'s ''The Leatherman's Handbook II'' (the 1983 second edition; the 1972 first edition did not include this list) which is generally considered authoritative states that a yellow handkerchief is a symbol for urolagnia in the [[handkerchief code]], which is employed usually among gay male casual-sex seekers or BDSM practitioners in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. Wearing the handkerchief on the left indicates the top, dominant, or active partner; on the right indicates the bottom, submissive, or passive partner. However, negotiation with a prospective partner remains important because, as Townsend noted, people may wear hankies of any color "only because the idea of the hankie turns them on" or "may not even know what it means".<ref>{{cite book |last=Townsend |first=Larry|title=The Leatherman's Handbook II |year=1983 |publisher=Modernismo Publications |location=New York |isbn=0-89237-010-6 |page=26}}</ref>

Sex scenes depicted by [[The Hun (cartoonist)|Bill Schmeling]] routinely involve [[BDSM]] with an emphasis on bodily fluids, including urolagnia.<ref name="Lambiek">{{Cite web |title=Bill Schmeling |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/schmeling_bill.htm |access-date=2017-01-27 |website=lambiek.net |language=en}}</ref><ref name="LeatherArchives">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Leather Archives & Museum, Bill Schmeling, a.k.a. "The Hun", is a Portland,... |url=http://leatherarchives.tumblr.com/post/96636108465/bill-schmeling-aka-the-hun-is-a-portland |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202060629/http://leatherarchives.tumblr.com/post/96636108465/bill-schmeling-aka-the-hun-is-a-portland |archive-date=2017-02-02 |access-date=2017-01-27 |website=Leather Archives & Museum |language=en}}</ref> Another notable artist that depicted urolagnia was [[Tom of Finland|Touko Laaksonen]] ("Tom of Finland").<ref>{{cite book|title=Soaked!: A Watersports Handbook for Men|publisher=[[Leather Archives & Museum]]|author=Joseph W. Bean|year=2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3f1wmiSu0MC|isbn=1-887895-39-6|page=148}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>{{Elaborate|reason=what sorts of things did he do?|date=January 2025}}

==Notable cases==
[[File:Havelock Ellis cph.3b08675.jpg|thumb|upright|British [[sexologist]] [[Havelock Ellis]]]]

* [[Chuck Berry]]: American musician who was featured urinating on a woman in a [[sex tape]], and was sued for videotaping dozens of women in the restroom of a restaurant he owned.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Gilmore |first=Mikal |date=7 April 2017 |title=Chuck Berry: Farewell to the Father of Rock |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/chuck-berry-inside-father-of-rocks-triumphs-scandals-w475260 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620004542/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/chuck-berry-inside-father-of-rocks-triumphs-scandals-w475260 |archive-date=20 June 2017 |access-date=20 December 2017 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Complicated Truth About Chuck Berry |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2995000/chuck-berry-complicated-truth/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917213750/http://www.mtv.com/news/2995000/chuck-berry-complicated-truth/ |archive-date=2017-09-17 |access-date=2017-09-17 |website=MTV}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=February 1993 |title=Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll Especially Sex |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=akzvdiyCQ1EC&pg=PA58 |magazine=[[Spy Magazine]] |pages=58–63}}</ref>
* [[Havelock Ellis]]: British [[sexologist]] who was reportedly [[Erectile dysfunction|impotent]] until at age sixty he discovered that he was aroused by the sight of a woman urinating.<ref>{{Citation |last=Andrew Brink |title=Havelock Ellis: eros and explanation (review of Phyllis Grosskurth, Havelock Ellis: a Biography) |url=http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/vol100/iss1/11 |work=Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies |volume=100 |issue=1 |year=1980 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824130334/http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/vol100/iss1/11/ |access-date=2010-07-23 |archive-date=2010-08-24 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Albert Fish]]: American serial killer, also known as The Grayman and The Boogeyman. He wrote several letters to widows with want-ads in ''[[The New York Times]]'' and described in detail women urinating on him, inside of him, and in cups so that he could drink it. He later forced children to drink urine.<ref>{{cite book |last=Harold Schechter |title=Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RtZBOBe5_dAC |pages=92, 271–272 |year=1990 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102102820/https://books.google.com/books?id=RtZBOBe5_dAC |edition=reedited, illustrated |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9780671678753 |access-date=2015-10-27 |archive-date=2016-01-02 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[R. Kelly]]: American singer, sentenced to prison for, among other things, urinating on and sexually abusing a fourteen-year-old girl in a videotape.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/r-kelly-sentenced-chicago-child-sex-abuse|title=R. Kelly Was Sentenced To Additional Prison Time For Sexually Abusing And Urinating On A 14-Year-Old Girl In An Infamous Tape|first=Stephanie K.|last=Baer|date=23 February 2023|website=BuzzFeed News}}</ref>
* [[Ashley MacIsaac]]: Nova Scotian [[fiddle]]r and singer. In 1996, he spoke with a ''[[Maclean's]]'' interviewer mentioning his sexual life, including his boyfriend and his taste for urolagnia. In 2003, he told an interviewer for the ''[[Montreal Mirror]]'' that he loves to have men urinate on him.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fiddler, resurrected? |date=31 July 2003<!--educated guess based on URL--> |first=Matthew |last=Hays |url=http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2003/073103/diverscite_1.html |url-status=dead |newspaper=Montreal Mirror |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030922112023/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2003/073103/diverscite_1.html |archive-date=2003-09-22 }}</ref>
* [[Ricky Martin]]: a Puerto Rican singer. He gave an interview with [[Blender (magazine)|''Blender'' magazine]] in which he stated that he enjoyed "giving the golden shower".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-01-14 |title=Ricky Martin outraged over controversy caused by his 'golden shower' comment |work=Yahoo! News |url=http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060113/1/3xw0y.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125221038/http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060113/1/3xw0y.html |archive-date=2007-01-25 |access-date=2013-03-11 |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |quote=Latin crooner Ricky Martin has expressed outrage over controversy that emerged after he told a leading US music magazine he enjoyed 'golden showers' – the act of urinating on another person. ... 'I love giving the golden shower,' he told Blender magazine earlier.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=16 January 2006 |title=Ricky Martin Criticised Over 'Giving The Golden Shower' |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/martin-regrets-golden-shower-frankness |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228183514/http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/martin-regrets-golden-shower-frankness |archive-date=28 December 2014 |access-date=26 May 2016 |website=Contactmusic.com<!--sic-->}}</ref>
* [[Patrice O'Neal]]: American standup comedian who had on several occasions mentioned his appreciation for golden showers, even stating that his girlfriend noticing that his urine tasted like "birthday cake" is how he came to find out that he suffered from diabetes.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Patrice O'Neal: Death of a Stand-Up |url=http://www.jonahweiner.com/RS_Patrice_Jonah_Weiner.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111223659/http://www.jonahweiner.com/RS_Patrice_Jonah_Weiner.html |archive-date=11 January 2014 |via=Jonah Weiner |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Annie Sprinkle]]: an American [[Pornographic film actor|porn actress]], later turned sex educator and advocate for female sexual enjoyment. Her stage name is derived from her obsession with fluids.<ref>{{cite web |last=<!--omit this type of "author": Redaction--> |title=Annie Sprinkle |url=http://www.eictv.co.cu/miradas/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=531&Itemid=93 |work=Miradas |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718164235/http://www.eictv.co.cu/miradas/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=531&Itemid=93 |language=es |quote=...&nbsp;she made herself get called Annie Sprinkle. Sprinkle&nbsp;... made reference to her obsession with fluids: 'I was attracted by the sprinkles over ice cones and by the sound of humidity. I like cascades, urine, vaginal fluid, sweat, anything wet. So the name "Annie Sprinkle" seemed perfect.' |archive-date=2011-07-18 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Troughman]]: an Australian noted in the Sydney media for lying down in urinal troughs at [[Sydney Mardi Gras]] parties and other events.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Barry Charles |date=July 2003 |title=Troughman |journal=[[Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services]] |volume=15 |pages=65–74 |doi=10.1300/J041v15n03_06 |number=3&4 |s2cid=216138115}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | first=Robert |last=Reynolds | title=Editor's Comment: Afternoon Tea with Troughman | journal=Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services | volume=15 | number=3&4 | date=July 2003 | pages=70–74 | doi=10.1300/J041v15n03_06 | s2cid=216138115 }}</ref>
* [[Ian Watkins (Lostprophets singer)|Ian Watkins]]: the former lead singer for the [[Wales|Welsh]] rock band [[Lostprophets]]. Convicted in December 2013 of numerous child sex abuse charges, which included urolagnia.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Marko |last=Jovanović<!--byline jomatami – for real name see https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ug_news/meet_the_ug_writers_team.html--> |title=Disturbing Ian Watkins Trial Details Surface: Singer Sexually Touched, Had Sex With and Urinated on Children |date=November 27, 2013 |website=Ultimate Guitar |url=http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/disturbing_ian_watkins_trial_details_surface_singer_sexually_touched_had_sex_with_and_urinated_on_children.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305083921/https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/disturbing_ian_watkins_trial_details_surface_singer_sexually_touched_had_sex_with_and_urinated_on_children.html |archive-date=5 March 2016 |access-date=26 May 2016}}</ref>
* [[Sean Combs]]: American rapper and producer, indicted for sex trafficking, kidnapping, rape and sexual assault charges. Combs’ ex-partner [[Cassie Ventura]] has claimed that he frequently urinated on her during the “freak-offs” that she was forced to participate in.<ref>{{Cite web |title=P Diddy trial latest: Cassie testifies against rapper - 'he made us apply baby oil every five minutes during freak offs' |url=https://news.sky.com/story/p-diddy-trial-cassie-sex-trafficking-evidence-sean-combs-new-york-live-latest-13363431 |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=Sky News |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Golden shower controversy]]
* [[Golden shower dossier]]
* [[Soupeur]]
* [[Urination#Urination and sexual activity|Urination and sexual activity]]
* [[Urophagia]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Urolagnia}}

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