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  Portnoy's Complaint

  by Philip Roth

  Portnoy's Complaint n. <after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)> A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spievogel says: "Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine... (more)