PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Masturbation, Paraphilia, Frotteurism

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9 Dec 2020
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Paraphilia was coined from the greek roots para, meaning to the side of , and philos. Paraphilias- unusual or atypical patterns of sexual attraction that involve sexual arousal in response to atypical stimuli. These atypical patterns of sexual arousal may be labeled by others as deviant, bizarre, The range of atypical stimuli include nonhuman objects such as underwear, shoes, leather, or silk, to humiliation or experience of pain in oneself or one"s partner, or children and other persons who do not or cannot grant consent. The dsm-5 includes a class of mental disorders called paraphilic disorders. A most harmful paraphilia is sexual sadism when acted out with a nonconsenting partner. Strong and recurrent urges, fantasies, or behaviors of exposing of one"s genitals to unsuspecting individuals for the purpose of sexual arousal. Typically, the person seeks to surprise, shock, or sexually arouse the victim. The person may masturbate while fantasizing about or actually exposing himself.

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