PSYC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Transvestic Fetishism, Frotteurism, Exhibitionism
23 May 2018
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Paraphilias
• 6-months, recurrent, intense, sexually arousing
fantasies/sexual urges
• fantasies/urges involve a specific act
• involving:
– non-human objects
– suffering or humiliation of oneself or another – children or
non-consenting persons
• cause significant distress or impairment
• Fetishes
• Transvestic fetishism
• Voyeurism
• Exhibitionism
• Frotteurism
• Sadism/masochism
• Pedophilia
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Paraphilias
Fetishes
• Sexual arousal by:
– using or thinking about aninanimate object – viewing a particular
part of the body
– Common items:
• womens’ clothing (shoe, stockings, underpants, bras) • feet
• Characteristics: – male
– 25%homosexual
• Causes:
Fetishes
– temporally obeab normalities
– learned behavior- classical conditioning
• 5/7 men conditioned to become sexually aroused to a knee
length leather boot
• 3/7 generalized to other shoes (Rachman & Hodgson,
1968)
– women not classically
conditioned(Letourneau&O’Donohue,1997;Meston
& Rachman, 1994)
Dear Dr. E,
Fetishes
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I'm dating a man with a foot fetish. He has never asked me to do
anything with my feet, but he watches foot fetish videos. Is this
healthy?
J, St. Louis
Dear J,
You're in a better position to answer your question than I am. How
are you and your friend getting along? Does his fascination with
feet interfere with your relationship? How well does he function at
work and at home? If he's functioning well and you're getting
along, you probably don't have anything to worry about. Some
people get aroused by eyes, some by breasts, some by lags.
What do you have against feet?
Transvestites & Transvestic Fetishism
• Sexual arousal by dressing in clothes of the opposite sex
• crossdressing
• Characteristics:
– broadagerange
– broadreligiousaffiliation
– welleducated
– incommittedrelationships – parents
– heterosexual
– beganbeforeage10
• Causes
– Family:
• positive paternal role model
• negative maternal relationship
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Document Summary
Paraphilias: 6-months, recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies/sexual urges fantasies/urges involve a specific act involving: Suffering or humiliation of oneself or another children or non-consenting persons: cause significant distress or impairment, fetishes, transvestic fetishism, voyeurism, exhibitionism, frotteurism, sadism/masochism, pedophilia. Using or thinking about aninanimate object viewing a particular part of the body. Common items: womens" clothing (shoe, stockings, underpants, bras) feet, characteristics: male. Learned behavior- classical conditioning: 5/7 men conditioned to become sexually aroused to a knee length leather boot, 3/7 generalized to other shoes (rachman & hodgson, I"m dating a man with a foot fetish. He has never asked me to do anything with my feet, but he watches foot fetish videos. You"re in a better position to answer your question than i am. If he"s functioning well and you"re getting along, you probably don"t have anything to worry about. Some people get aroused by eyes, some by breasts, some by lags.
