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Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality was a Peer Reviewed scholarly journal that publishes articles, dissertations, theses, posters, and other academic materials about all aspects of human sexuality. It was published by David S. Hall for the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, beginning in 1998 and produced its final issue in 2014, with 17 volumes in total. It remains available online. The founder and original Senior Editor of the journal was David S. Hall and later the Senior Editor was Peter B. Anderson.

Dacryphilia

Etmyology
The term comes from the Greek words dacry- meaning "tears," and philia meaning "unnatural attraction."

Classification
There are two different forms of dacryphilia; it can be sadistic, where people are turned on by making people cry or making their partners cry. This can take place during sex, but either way it is consensual. The other form, the voyeuristic form, occurs when the person aroused by watching a person or their partners cry. Ocassionally, there doesn't even have to be a certain reason behind the arousal.

BDSM
There is an arguable gendered bias amongst dacryphiles because in the BDSM realm men are generally perceived to be dominant, where women are perceived to be more submissive; that is not always the case. A study was done on a Romanian woman named Angela M and the type of men that she enjoyed watching crying were discussed. Here is an abstract:

I: You mention that you enjoy watching a ‘fascinating man’ or a man that you could ‘never attain in reality’. Can you elaborate further on the sort of man that you enjoy watching crying? A: Yes, I enjoy to see a man that is mysterious, elegant, rather dandy-like and at the same time not willing to cry because he was taught not to, he was taught to be/act manly. At one point, he needs to get in touch with his feminine side through a loss or an embarrassment and by crying he gets there and feels more complete, more liberated.. This is simply put, the classic kind of story or motif that I pursue in my fetish, the one that arouses me most, keeps me in suspense somehow. I like it when it happens all of the sudden and the character of my story is not willing to let go, to cry yet, he struggles, he represses, denies what he feels then there’s this minutiae catharsis, when his eyes get flushed, well up with tears or the man is either shaken by sobs, has a breakdown or other such scenario. Such as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights before the death of his beloved Catherine, such as Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, the Byronic hero, Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons. That’s class A of types that I enjoy seeing. There’s also another class of men that are naturally gentle and cry more readily and they’re very candid when it happens, very at ease with their own emotions such as Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman or Pip in Great Expectations, Marco Zuluaga in Almodovar’s Hable Con Ella (Almodovar actually has all the male characters portray sweet, sensitive, effeminate men or gays, but those in this movie that I cited are not gay, they’re just vulnerable).

I: You mention that you enjoy watching a ‘fascinating man’ or a man that you could ‘never attain in reality’. Can you elaborate further on the sort of man that you enjoy watching crying? A: Yes, I enjoy to see a man that is mysterious, elegant, rather dandy-like and at the same time not willing to cry because he was taught not to, he was taught to be/act manly. At one point, he needs to get in touch with his feminine side through a loss or an embarrassment and by crying he gets there and feels more complete, more liberated.. This is simply put, the classic kind of story or motif that I pursue in my fetish, the one that arouses me most, keeps me in suspense somehow. I like it when it happens all of the sudden and the character of my story is not willing to let go, to cry yet, he struggles, he represses, denies what he feels then there’s this minutiae catharsis, when his eyes get flushed, well up with tears or the man is either shaken by sobs, has a breakdown or other such scenario. Such as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights before the death of his beloved Catherine, such as Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, the Byronic hero, Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons. That’s class A of types that I enjoy seeing. There’s also another class of men that are naturally gentle and cry more readily and they’re very candid when it happens, very at ease with their own emotions such as Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman or Pip in Great Expectations, Marco Zuluaga in Almodovar’s Hable Con Ella (Almodovar actually has all the male characters portray sweet, sensitive, effeminate men or gays, but those in this movie that I cited are not gay, they’re just vulnerable).