SLGY 3233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sexual Sadism Disorder, Transvestic Fetishism, Erving Goffman
1 Apr 2017
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Psychiatrist thomas szasz wrote the myth of mental illness (1961) saying that the only true o all others are merely problems of living . Erving goffman said that mental illness was merely society" wat of labelling and controlling non-conformist behaviour. By 1974, the dsm-2 declassified homosexuality as a mental illness and changed it to sexual orientation disturbance . Voyerustic disorders a desire to see other people naked. Exhibitionistic disorders a desire to show one"s genitals or oneself naked. A desire for control or causing pain during sexual activity. A desire to be controlled or receive pain during sexual activity. A desire for children up to or before puberty. Sexual arousal from an inanimate object or non-genital body part. Classic exhibitionist is a flasher who may approach young girls or women and display himself o this is when it becomes a disorder o flashers are almost always male o female exhibitionism is often ignored.
