Melolagnia (arousal)

Melolagnia is a paraphilia, in which the person inclines to get sexually aroused when listening to music. Melolagnia is not considered to be a part of formal medical vocabulary. Similar phenomenon to melolagnia, is an eargasm phenomenon, which means the person can experience strong orgasmic-like sensation through their ears. There is also very similar paraphilia to melolagnia, which is called acousticophilia, which is sexual arousal from sound, rather than music.
Some melolagniacs like music that has specific characteristics, such as; music with strong rhythm, music with repetitiveness and/or music that is fast-paced. These types of musical characteristics can increase the persons heart beat, which can lead to experience where the listener gets into a state of sexual arousal. Some melolagniacs even like to go to rave parties, where musical experience can be highly energetic and continuously played, which can lead to highly stimulating experience.
In addition, there has been a study made by University of Sussex, which claims that songs with a greater variety of chords and more complex rhythms provoke more sensuality in the person listening to it.
Etymology
The word melolagnia has Greek origins. The first part "melo-", stands for music and the second part "-lagnia", stands for lust.</poem>
Orgasm
It is imperative for some melolagniacs to have musical stimulus for reaching a sexual climax.

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