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Dr. Roberson's HDFS 3040 class. Ch. 16 covers atypical sexual behaviors....

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Ch. 16 – Atypical Sexual Behaviors What Constitutes Sexual Behavior? 

Sexual behaviors that have been labeled as deviant, perverted, aberrant, or abnormal

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Paraphilia  Term used to describe uncommon types of sexual expression o Literally means “beyond usual or typical love” o Not a disorder in and of itself, but will be labeled a disorder if they cause impairments to the person manifesting them or if they cause harm to others

Noncoercive Versus Coercive Paraphilia 

Noncoercive paraphilia do not violate a person’s basic rights because it often does not involve another person or is between two consenting adults. o Often seen as benign or harmless

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Coercive paraphilia may cause harm or are invasive to unwilling recipients o May cause psychological trauma o Illegal acts o Many authorities see them as minor sex offenses because many do not involve physical or sexual contact 

AKA, nuisance offenses

Noncoercive Paraphilia Fetishism 

A sexual behavior in which a person obtains sexual excitement primarily or exclusively from an inanimate object or a particular part of the body

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Leather is a very common fetish object

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Only occurs when the focus is on the object and everything else is tuned out

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Occurs when the object is incorporated in fantasy or when reinforced with masturbation, or even childhood o Symbolic transformation

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Those with fetishes may commit burglary to support their fetish

Transvestic Disorder 

When someone puts on clothes of the opposite sex to pleasure themselves o Just admiring the clothing would make it a fetish so it must be PUT ON

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Used to be labeled as transvestites

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A momentary activity that produces sexual excitement that often culminates in gratification through masturbation or sex with a partner

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Common in married men with predominantly heterosexual orientations

Sexual Sadism and Sexual Masochism 

Sadomasochistic (S/M) Behavior  The association of sexual expression with pain and power dynamics o Can also be known as BDSM  Bondage-domination-sadism-masochism o Often expressed with women o Viewed in a highly negative light in Western societies

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Sadism and masochism are distinct behaviors

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Sexual Sadism  The act of obtaining sexual arousal through giving physical or psychological pain

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Sexual Masochism  The act of obtaining sexual arousal through receiving physical or psychological pain o Pain must be associated with a staged encounter whose express purpose is sexual gratification o Bondage  Being bound, tied up, or otherwise restricted

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“Safe, sane, and consensual”

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Desire dominance/submission and not pain most of the time

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Allows men and women to escape cultural norms and scripts by reversing the typical roles

Other Noncoercive Paraphilia 

Autoerotic Asphyxia  A rare and life threatening paraphilia in which the individual, almost always a male, seeks to reduce the supply of oxygen to the brain during a heightened state of sexual arousal o Use chains, leather belts, ligatures, or rope nooses pushed against the neck o White males o Sometimes attributed to suicide

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Klismaphilia  Unusual variant of sexual expression in which an individual obtains sexual pleasure from receiving enemas (liquids or gas in the anus)

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Coprophilia  Sexual arousal from contact with feces, defecating on someone, or watching someone defecate

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Urophilia  Sexual arousal from urinating on someone or being urinated on

Coercive Paraphilia Exhibitionism 

The act of exposing one’s self to an unwilling observer

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Indecent exposure

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Almost always male to a woman or girl

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Often shy, nonassertive people who feel inadequate and insecure and suffer from problems with intimacy

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Respond by calmly ignoring the exhibitionist and going on with your day, do not react and distance yourself before/while calling the police

Obscene Phone Calls

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Telephone scatologia

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Sometimes seen as a subtype of exhibitionism

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Experience sexual arousal from horrified responses and masturbate during or after “successful” calls

Voyeurism 

Deriving sexual pleasure from looking at the naked bodies or sexual activities of others (strangers), without their consent

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Difficult to draw the line since so many sex sites are online

o Must be preferred over sexual relations with another person or indulged in some risk 

Young men in their early 20s

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Peeping Toms

Other Coercive Paraphilia 

Frotteurism  Fairly common, but unnoticed practice done by males who obtain sexual pleasure by pressing or rubbing against a fully clothed female in a crowded public place o Between man’s penis and woman’s butt or legs o He may also touch her in inappropriate areas “toucherism”

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Zoophilia  Sexual contact between humans and animals o Bestiality

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Necrophilia  Having sexual gratification by viewing or having sex with a corpse o Men who dig up freshly buried corpses or who work in morgues or funeral homes...