Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sexual Sadism Disorder, Transvestic Fetishism, Sexual Arousal

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Fantasies, urges, or behaviour that involve nonliving objects. Sexual arousal in men that results from wearing women"s clothing and is accompanied by distress and impairment. Happy with their biological sex- turns them on- but are not transgender. Seeing an unsuspecting person naked, undressing or engaging in sexual activity (thru a window or something they don"t know they"re being watched) Sexual urges, fantasies, or actual behaviour directed towards a prepubescent child. Sexual arousal as a result of being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer pain made to suffer pain. Infliction of pain or humiliation, inflicted on another person. Usually described as well-adjusted, successful, and above the norm on assessments of mental health. Onset begins from age 7 to 38 with 16 being the average age. Engages in a paraphilic disorder and achieves sexual release= the behaviour is likely to be reinforced due to experience of pleasure. Lack of data to support biological or psychological reasons.