The ocular eroticism mentioned in my previous post appears to be a niche art criticism trope.

Evidence:

Reconfiguring the Renaissance: Essays in Critical Materialism – Page 159 by Jonathan V. Crewe – Renaissance – 171 pages 37 The same model of what we may call “ocular eroticism” informs secular literature as well: one thinks of Wyatt’s “Through mine eye the stroke from her did …

Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage: Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of … – Page 103 by Celia R. Daileader – Performing Arts – 1998 – 194 pages … displacing the “ocular eroticism” prevalent from Plato through Wyatt – an eroticism which pertained to the longing for one’s lady as well as the longing …

Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England – Page 208 by Gordon McMullan, David Matthews – Drama – 2007 – 287 pages … point is that Mary’s ‘erotic fragrance’ — a vestigial remnant of medieval ‘ocular eroticism‘ — presupposes the importance of Mary’s physical knowledge …

Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing – Page 134 by Meredith Anne Skura – Performing Arts – 1993 – 325 pages … particularly of the erotics of the gaze.50 The ocular eroticism associated with the hunt in general in Love’s Labour’s Lost is here epitomized in …

The Madness and Perversion of Yukio Mishima – Page 70 by Jerry S. Piven – Literary Criticism – 2004 – 273 pages … which is also consistent with Mishima’s ocular eroticism as simultaneously retaining, destroying, and merging with those on whom he gazes, …

Sexual Aliveness: A Reichian Gestalt Perspective by Edward W. L. Smith – Self-Help – 1987 – 126 pages

Gotta love Google books.