masagalesta, n. Fetishization of medical care providers in a maternal role; see details in Usage section.

usage: In its narrowest sense this refers to a sexual fantasy of breastfeeding of an adult patient by a Namúka who is an expectant or new mother, wherein the patient regresses to a state of dependence and exemption from work. From c. 50 to 150 lilpo this was both a real phenomenon and a common yearning, as many nurses saw the responsibility of increasing the tribe's population as synonymous with preventing its decline, and new developments in the early second economy of the Lilitai often resulted in uncertain and exhausting work demands. In time the term came to encompass a broader category of inappropriate relationships or desires based on attachment problems which were endemic among the slokdtabasa. These took several generations to process, as no model for healthy mother-daughter relations existed and had to be invented. Although the term continued to be used in Thessian literary criticism to describe (somewhat pejoratively) the enduring archetype of a motherly caregiver, the actual social phenomenon of dysfunctional attachment evolved into the cult of Masadéa after Sarthía's death.