Candaulism

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Candaulism is a paraphilia, consisting in the masochistic and/or sadistic pleasure in which the husband exposes his wife, or pictures of her, to other voyeurist people; hence the term candaulism which derives its name (proposed by Gugitz) from ancient King Candaules who made a plot to show his unaware naked wife to his servant Gyges of Lydia. She discovered Gyges, while he was watching her naked, and 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 extreme point, allowing complete sexual relations, practice defined by many English speaking people in the swinging subculture as cuckoldry. In certain cases the relation evolves into a stable union of three persons, this is known as triolism.

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Contents

0.1 History of the term
0.2 Psychology of candaulism
0.3 Candaulists in history
0.4 Filmography

1 Sources (Bibliography)

1.1 Further reading

2 Paraphilias as classified by the DSM-IV-TR
3 External links
4 See also

History of the term

The term was first defined by Richard von Krafft-Ebbingin in his book: Psychopathia sexualis. Eine klinisch-forensische Studie (Stuttgart: Enke 1886).

Psychology of candaulism

According to R. Senf, candaulism is a veiled form of homosexuality, and Sadger wrote that the candaulist completely identifies with his partner's body, and deep in his mind is showing himself.

Candaulists in history

This is a list of seducer, sexually unfaithful wives, happily married for many years to famous consenting men (who deliberately ignored, tolerated, approved, encouraged, or even induced the non innocent nude exposition or promiscuous sexual behavior of their spouses, all facts fully proven, and widely known to the public). These persons/characters must have a relevance in arts, history, literature, science, cinema or cartoons, not belong to the world of pornography, and have stable relationships extending over many years.

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Queen Catherine II of Russia, wife of Peter III of Russia (history)
Clodia, wife of the Roman citizen Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (history)
Faustina the Younger, wife of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, mother of emperor M.A. Commodus Antoninus, said to be a son of a gladiator (history)
La Fornarina, lover of the Italian painter Raffaello da Urbino (arts)
Gala Dalí, wife of Spanish painter Salvador Dalí (arts)
Lady Godiva, wife of king Leofric III (myth, history?)
Queen Guinevere, wife of mythic British King Arthur, her lover was his majesty knight Lancelot (literature, myth)
Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé, wife of American nobel mathematician John Forbes Nash (science)
Clara Bracken McMillen, wife of American sexologist Alfred Kinsey (science)
Valeria Messalina, wife of Roman emperor Claudius (history)
Marilyn Monroe, actress, wife of baseball player Joe DiMaggio (cinema, history, sports)
Marina Punturieri former wife of Marchioness Lante della Rovere
Marta Marzotto, wife of Italian count Marzotto, lover of painter Renato Guttuso (arts)
Madame de Pompadour, wife of the French citizen Charles-Guilaume Le Normant (history)
Donna Olimpia Maidalchina, wife of Panfilio Pamphili, brother of Catholic Pope Innocent X (history)
Jessica Rabbit, wife of Roger Rabbit (cartoon)
Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt allegedly was involved in a homosexual relation with Lorena Hickok (history)
Queen Marguerite de Valois married with King Henry IV of France (history)
Wallis Simpson, wife of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (history)
Jane Fonda, actress, wife of film director Roger Vadim (cinema, history, activist)

Filmography

Jules et Jim (1962, by François Truffaut) with Jeanne Moreau, Oscar Werner and Henri Serre
Knife in the Water (Nóz w wodzie)) (1962, by Roman Polanski) with Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz.
Irma la Douce (1963, by Billy Wilder), with Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi.
Belle de Jour (1967, by Luis Buñuel), with Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel and Michel Piccoli.
The Graduate (1967, by Mike Nichols), with Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Il Merlo Maschio (1970, by Pasquale Festa Campanile), with Laura Antonelli and Lando Buzzanca
La Dernière femme (1976, by Marco Ferreri), with Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli.
The Tin Drum (1979, by Volker Schlöndorff), with Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach.
La Pelle (1981, by Liliana Cavani), with Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Burt Lancaster, Ken Marshall, Alexandra King, Carlo Giuffrè
Querelle de Brest (1982, by Reiner Werner Fassbinder) with Brad Davis and Jeanne Moreau.
Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986, by Adrian Lyne) with Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, David Margulies.
I miei primi quarant'anni (1987, by Carlo Vanzina), with Carol Alt, Elliott Gould and Jean Rochefort.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, by Robert Zemeckis), Bob Hoskins & cartoons.
Wild Orchid (1990, by Zalman King) with Jacqueline Bisset, Carré Otis, Mickey Rourke.
Henry & June (1990, by Philip Kaufman), with Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros.
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990, by Brian De Palma) with Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall.
Bitter Moon (Lunes de fiel) (1992, by Roman Polanski), with Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner , Peter Coyote.
La Reine Margot (1994, by Patrice Chéreau, with Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Virna Lisi, Miguel Bosé
The Specialist (1994, by Luis Llosa) with Sharon Stone, Silvester Stallone, James Woods and Rod Steiger.
Une femme française (1995, by Régis Wargnier), with Emmanuelle Béart and Daniel Auteuil.
How much do you love me?, (Combien tu m'aimes?) (2005, by Bertrand Blier) with Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan and Gérard Depardieu

Sources (Bibliography)

Richard von Krafft-Ebbingin in his book: Psychopathia sexualis. Eine klinisch-forensische Studie (Stuttgart: Enke 1886).
Ernest Borneman, Lexicon der Liebe (Hannibal, 1984)
Gide, Le roi Candaules
Hebbel, Gyges und sein Ring

Paraphilias as classified by the DSM-IV-TR

The numbers were given by DSM-IV Codes
(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association)

External links

[King Candaules as told by historian Herodotus]