PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sexual Sadism Disorder, Rope Bondage, Paraphilia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Yaroslavna Kadulina

Document Summary

P s y 3 1 2 2 : l e c t u r e 1 9. F r i d a y , m a r c h 2 4 , 2 0 1 7. Consider that some expressions of certain paraphilic behaviours can be part of a healthy sex life. Learn about theories that try to explain how paraphilias develop. Find out the various approaches to treating harmful paraphilias. Paraphilias/paraphilia disorders with non-consenting partners and which are against the law. Statistical definition might define normal in terms of prevalence of a sexual behaviour o o. Hard to do this because it"s often unreported. Also not nice to call them abnormal (e. g. top 5% of tallest people do you call them abnormal?) Sexual norms of a particular culture define what is acceptable or illegal (depends on time and place) o o.