Chapter 14: Variations in sexual behavior

Question 1

psychological definition of abnormal sex behaviour

Answer 1

discomfort, inefficiency and bizarreness

Question 2

medical approach of sexual disorders

Answer 2

eight specific paraphilias, sexual interest: fetishism, transvestism, sexual sadism, sexual masochism, voyeurism, frotteurism, exhibitionism, and pediphilia.

Question 3

transvestic disorder

Answer 3

practice of dressing as the opposite sex in order to experience sexual excitement, which causes emotional distress or impairs social or interpersonal functioning for at least 6 months

Question 4

sexual masochist

Answer 4

person who experiences intense sexual arousal from the act of being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer, as manifested by fantasies, urges or behaviors

Question 5

paraphillic disorder

Answer 5

Paraphilic disorder exists when recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors currently cause distress or impairment to the individual or whose satisfaction has entailed personal harm, or risk of harm, to others generally involving: non-human objects, the suffering or humiliation of oneself§

Question 6

voyeur

Answer 6

person who experiences intense sexual arousal from watching an unsuspecting person who is naked, in het process of undressing, or engaging in sexual activity (strippers)

Question 7

exhibitionism

Answer 7

person who derives sexual gratification from exposing his genitals to an unsuspecting person

Question 8

nymphomania

Answer 8

high level of sexual acitivty and drive in women

Question 9

satyriasis

Answer 9

high level of sexual acitvity and drive in men

Question 10

cisgender

Answer 10

The term “cisgender” (pronounced “sis-gender”) refers to people whose gender identity and expression matches the biological sex they were assigned when they were born

Question 11

asexuals

Answer 11

they can masturbate, they are not interested in sex with other people

Question 12

asphyxiophilia

Answer 12

desire ton induce onself a state of oxygen deficiency in order to create sexual arousal or to enhance sexual excitement and orgasm, often by rope, pillow or plastic bag

Question 13

frotteurism

Answer 13

defined as sexual fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving touching or rubbing one’s genitals against the body of a nonconsenting person

Question 14

troilism

Answer 14

or triolism refers to a sexual encounter involving three people, often with one of them watching

Question 15

saliromania

Answer 15

is a disorder found mainly in men, it is the desire to damage or soil a woman or her clothes or the imahe of a woman, such as a painting or statue.

Question 16

coprophilia and urophilia

Answer 16

feces and urine are desirable

Question 17

sexsomnia or sleep sex

Answer 17

refers to automatic, unintentional sexual behaviors during the first two hours of sleep. Behavior can differ, from sexual sounds like moaning to findling, masturbation etc. more of a sleep disorder