'In Love With A Serial Killer' - Hybristophilia, Forms And Motivations

by Erin Banks

Hybristophilia is usually defined as the attraction to violent offenders but it does in fact go deeper than that.

The syllable “hybristo” derives from Greek “hubrízein” which means to “commit an outrage against someone,” likewise hybris (hubris) “wanton violence, insolence,” and “philia” denoting fondness, “especially the abnormal love for a specific thing.”

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