Paraphilia

Paraphilias are sexual desires or activities that lie outside the norm, and are usually considered to be mental disorders. At one time homosexuality was considered to be a paraphilia, but currently it is usually not reckoned among them. Paraphilias sometimes involve non-consenting sexual partners.

Paraphilias include:

• zoophilia: sexual attraction to animals, or bestiality
• pedophilia: sexual attraction to pre-pubescents
• coprophilia?: sexual attraction to feces
• urophilia?: sexual attraction to urine?
• sadomasochism: taking sexual pleasure in inflicting pain, or having pain inflicting upon one's self
• fetishism?: sexual attraction to a physical object
• pictophilia?: inability to become sexually aroused except through the use of pornography
• [telephone scatologia]?: being sexually aroused by making obscene telephone calls
• frotteurage?: sexual arousal through rubbing one's self against a non-consenting stranger in public
• necrophilia?: sexual attraction to corpses
• [lust murder]?: sexual arousal through committing murder
• exhibitionism?: sexual arousal through displaying genitals in public
• voyeurism: sexual arousal through watching without permission others having sex

Paraphilias are defined by the DSM-IV.

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