Chapter 13 - Sexual Atypicality Flashcards
What is a Kink?
A nontraditional but generally harmless strategy to enrich sex and relationships.
What does BDSM stand for and explain each term.
BDSM:
Bondage: Using physical restraints for sexual arousal.
Discipline, Dominance: The use of humiliation
& Submission,
Sadism: inflict harm, and Masochism: expereinecing harm or humiliation that elicits sexual arousal
What is the prevalence of BDSM fantasies and practices
Fantasies (40-70%)
Practices (~20%)
What is a fetish
A fetish is a sexual fixation on non-genital body parts (partialism), materials (media fetish), or inanimate objects (objectophilia)
Why are feet festishes so common
May be because feet are no close to gentitalia on the brain map
WHat are the most common fetishes directed towards
The body
WHat is a paraphilia
Paraphilic interest is a longstanding, persistent and necessary for a sexual enjoyment.
When do paraphilias often emerge and what personality trait is it associated with and sometimes associated with?
around puberty, hypersexuality, exaggerate male sexual interests and sometimes associated with cognitive distortions
What is a paraphilic interest
a sexual interest in an atypical target (e.g., clothing, children) or activity (e.g., sadism).
Are paraphulias uncommon? Do they co-occur?
they are not uncommon and they usually co occur
What is a paraphilic disorder
Paraphilia that causes distress/impairment to the individual and/or leads to risk of harming others.
What are the two categories of paraphilic disorders
- Preference for atypical activities
- Preference for atypical targets
What are the 4 Typical Human Mating Phases
- Locating/appraising a potential partner (i.e. find someone)
- Pretactile interaction (e.g., smiling, posturing, gaining attention, talking to prospective partner, etc.) (engage without touching)
- Tactile interaction (e.g., embracing, kissing, fondling, etc.) (Engaging in touching)
- Genital-genital contact (Genital Union)
What are the courtship disorders and what phase are they apart of? SOme are potentially linked to other paraphilias. Which one?
- Voyeurism (Related to locating)- Arousal from observing an unsuspecting person (typically female) who is undressing, naked, disrobing, having sex, or while urinating/defecating
- Exhibitionism (Pre-Tactile -Engage without touching)
- Intense arousal from exposing one’s genitals to an unsuspecting person
- (Potentially linked to Scatalogia— making sexually explicit phone calls)
3. Frotteurism (Tactile) - Engaging in rubbing against someone (usually women) you find sexual appealing in crowded places without their consent, and often without their knowledge
Which personality trait is exhibitism associated with and what about cognitive distortion?
- Often associated with hypersexuality and interpreting the victim’s reaction as sexual interest (cognitive distortion)
what is the leading explanation for how courtship disorders arise?
- Some paraphilic disorders may result from disruption in the intensity and/or sequence of typical male courtship
what are examples of non paraphilic cross dressing?
- Women in numerous times places and cultures have often cross-dressed to pass as men
2.Bacha Posh: Girls are raised as boys for a period of time.
- Women in numerous times places and cultures have often cross-dressed to pass as men
- Drag: cross dressing to entertain and/or mock stereotypical gender expectations and fashion norms with over-the-top caricature/style. Generally not fetishistic.
What is erotic fetishistic cross-dressing? How common is it
Wearing clothes of the other sex for the purpose of sexual arousal.
Very common
What is autogynephilia?
Sexual arousal from fantasy of being the target or or kind of person to whom one is sexually attracted
Can autogynephilia lead to gender dysphoria
Yep
Why do we consider autogynphelia that leads to gender dysphoria as a second type of GD?
Emerges adoslescence or adulthood
- not overly feminine in childhood,
- Sexually aroused by cross-dressing
What do autogynephilic males mean when they say they are bisexual or asexual
Means they have fantasies about being so female that a male is attracted to them
Their sexual arousal comes from themselves
What is Zoophilia
persistent arousal and attraction to animals
What is Gynadromorphs:
Attracted to female figures with penis. More better knows as trans-attracted. Doesnt occur in nature.
acrotomophilia
Desire and arousal to amputees
apotemnophilia
Body integrity disorder. Wanting to be an amputee for sexual arousal
Anthromorphozoophilia
Sexual attraction and fixation to anthropomorphic animals
Autoanthromorphozoophilia:
outward attraction to anthropomorphic animals and arousal at the fantasy of being those animals.
