FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Obscene Phone Call, Paraphilia, American Psychiatric Association
30 Nov 2017
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Normally based on statistics ex. redheads are abnormal. Abnormality doesn"t mean unhealthy or problematic behaviour. Another approach to assessing whether a behaviour is normal is to determine how closely it adheres to the accepted norms of society. Sexual interest and arousal in response to unusual stimuli such as children, other nonconsenting persons, non-human objects, or pain and humiliation. mutually consenting and non harmful paraphilic behaviours are often referred to as kinky sex. Defined in american psychiatric association (mental disorders) Defined as any intense and persistent sexual interest other than sexualinterest. A diagnostic designation for a paraphilia that causes the in genital stimulation or preparatory fondling with phenotypically normal, physically mature, consenting human partners . Paraphilic disorder: person distress and/or is harmful to the self or other people. In extreme cases, people with paraphilias usually feel that their urges are insistent, demanding or compulsive. Paraphilias are generally harmless and victimless ex. fetishism and.
