Paraphilic disorders are
recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors
that are distressing or disabling and that involve inanimate objects, children or nonconsenting adults, or suffering or humiliation of oneself or the partner with the potential to cause harm.
What are some paraphilic disorders?
The chapter on paraphilic disorders includes eight conditions:
exhibitionistic disorder, fetishistic disor- der, frotteuristic disorder, pedophilic disorder
, sexual masochism disorder, sexual sadism disorder, transvestic disorder, and voyeuristic disorder.
What is an example of paraphilia?
Examples of specific fetishisms include
somnophilia
(sexual arousal by a person who is unconscious) and urophilia (deriving sexual pleasure from seeing or thinking about urine or urinating) Transvestism: cross-dressing that is sexually arousing and interferes with functioning.
What is the most common paraphilic disorder?
The most common are
pedophilia
(sexual focus on children), exhibitionism (exposure of genitals to strangers), voyeurism (observing private activities of unaware victims) and frotteurism (touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person).
What causes paraphilic disorders?
The exact causes leading to the development of paraphilias or paraphilic disorders are
not known
, though some experts posit that childhood sexual trauma may play a role. Others believe certain objects or situations may become sexually arousing if they are frequently associated with pleasurable sexual activity.
What are the types of paraphilia?
- Voyeuristic disorder.
- Exhibitionistic disorder.
- Frotteuristic disorder.
- Sexual masochism disorder.
- Sexual sadism disorder.
- Pedophilic disorder.
- Fetishistic disorder.
- Transvestic disorder.
What is the main aim of the treatment for Paraphilic disorders?
We will focus the review on these latter cases. The primary aims of the treatment are: •
To control paraphilic fantasies and behaviors
(this will help to decrease the risk of sexual offences espe- cially in cases of pedophilia or rape); • To decrease the level of distress of the paraphilic subject.
What is a Frotteuristic disorder?
Frotteuristic disorder, or frotteurism, is
a rare and poorly researched type of paraphilia
. It involves the act of touching or rubbing one’s genitals against another non-consenting individual in a sexual manner, to attain sexual gratification.
How is Paraphilic disorder treated?
- Antidepressants, such as lithium and various selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
- Long-acting gonadotropin-releasing hormones (ie, medical castration), such as leuprolide acetate and triptorelin.
Are paraphilias unhealthy?
Some paraphilias may interfere with the capacity for sexual activity with consenting adult partners. In the current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), a
paraphilia is not diagnosable as a psychiatric disorder unless it causes distress to the individual or harm to others
.
What causes nymphomania?
The exact cause of nymphomania is not known
. Nymphomania is a type of compulsive disorder marked by mental and emotional imbalance. It is thought that certain life events may trigger people who are predisposed to nymphomania (for hereditary or environmental reasons) to engage in compulsive sexual behavior.
What are the symptoms of paraphilic disorder?
Paraphilic disorders are
recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors that are distressing or disabling and that involve inanimate objects, children or nonconsenting adults
, or suffering or humiliation of oneself or the partner with the potential to cause harm.
What causes a person to be perverted?
The underlying cause of male acts of perversion has always been explained as the
need for control and mastery in
order to compensate for deep-seated feelings of sexual insecurity, which in turn are caused by arrested psychosexual development.
What is the difference between paraphilia and paraphilic disorder?
In the case of paraphilias, a new distinction is made between a paraphilia (
atypical sexual interest or behaviour
) and a paraphilic disorder (a mental disorder stemming from the atypical behaviour).
What is the most popular drug to treat paraphilias?
Most of the currently used pharmacologic treatments of the paraphilias have
serotonin and testosterone/dihydrotestosterone
as their targets.
Is frotteurism a disorder?
Frotteurism is one such disorder that is
subsumed within paraphilic disorder
; it is one of eight such paraphilias listed in the DSM-V. Frotteurism is the act of touching or rubbing one’s genitals up against a non-consenting person in a sexual manner.
