What you are experiencing is a fetish, defined as an intense and recurrent sexual arousal, urges or behaviors stemming from non-living objects. Your particular fetish even has a scientific name, actually a few: urolagnia, urophilia renifleurism, undinism, and ondinisme. The American Psychiatric Association labels fetishism as a psychiatric disorder requiring treatment, as can be found in the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).

That being said, I would have to argue that fetishism is very normal and not clinically a disorder so to speak, being that it is extremely common and may not in fact cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning to all those that experience it. Whichever term you decide to use to describe what you are experiencing, you should know that many people are feeling just how you do, and may even brand themselves on a night out by wearing a yellow handkerchief in their pocket!

Urophilia involves the act of urinating on one another for sexual gratification, also known as a ¨golden shower¨, ¨water sports¨, or ¨piss play¨. As you have experienced, sexual excitement may also come from wetting oneself, urinating in public, or seeing or hearing someone else urinate. Drinking urine (urophagia) is another common manifestation of this particular sexual fetish whereby one partner or both urinates directly into the other´s mouth. Urophagia is not isolated to sexual use, in fact it is becoming an increasingly popular act, undertaken in order to promote certain physical benefits, for spiritual or ritualistic ceremonies, as a form of survival when no other fresh water is available, and as a form of alternative medicine.

Consuming your own urine is relatively low in risk, assuming you do not have a bacterial infection and are not taking any medications. For this reason, drinking urine can only be guaranteed to be safe if it is your own, as it may be difficult to say if your sexual partner has an infection or is taking medications or supplements that may be being excreted, with you on the receiving end. Even proponents of urine therapy such as the Chinese Association of Urine Therapy warn that drinking urine can have certain unwanted side effects, including diarrhea, fatigue, fever, and muscle soreness. That being said, in small amounts, and with awareness of your own and your sexual partner’s health status, you should be safe to enjoy your ¨water sports¨ without too much risk involved.

Posted: 17 Aug 19:02