SOWK 4250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Paraphilia, Exhibitionism, Mental Disorder
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Week two part five: sexual diversity in contemporary social work practice. Paraphilias: a means to categorize and diagnose unusual sexual interests that do not align with ideological norms. Intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, fantasies, behaviors or individuals: previously known as sexual perversion and sexual deviation, healthy sexualities are not defined in the dsm, voyeuristic, exhibitionist, frotteuristic, sexual masochism, sexual sadism, pedophilic, Includes 8 specific disorders: fetishistic, and transvestic: whether a sexual arousal pattern should be considered atypical depends on the defintion of the term paraphilia.
