Studs And Nymphos: An Irritating Distinction

By Elizabeth Shore

In conducting background research for a story I’ve been considering, I needed to have the actual definition of a “nymphomaniac” so I turned to several dictionaries to see what they said. Here’s what I found:

A woman with inordinate sexual desire.

A woman who has abnormally excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire.

Of or relating to a neurotic condition in women in which the symptoms are a compulsion to have sexual intercourse with as many men as possible and an inability to ha...