Chapter 14: Variations in sexual behavior Flashcards
Paraphilia
Unusual, unconventional sexual behavior.
Paraphillic disorder
Paraphilia that causes the person distress or impairs their functioning, or causes harm to self or others.
Fetishism
A person’s sexual fixation on some object other than another human being and attachment of great erotic significance to that object.
Drag queen
A man who dresses in women’s clothing.
Female impersonator
A man or woman who impersonates a specific woman as part of a job in entertainment.
Transvestism
The practice of dressing as a member of the other gender in order to experience sexual arousal.
Sexual sadist
A person who experiences intense sexual arousal from the suffering of another person.
Sexual masochist
A person who experiences intense sexual arousal from being beaten, bound, humiliated, or made to suffer.
Bondage and discipline
The use of physical or psychological restraint to enforce servitude, from which both participants derive sensual pleasure.
Dominance and submission
The use of power consensually given to control the sexual stimulation and behavior of the other person.
Compulsive sexual behavior (CSB)
A disorder in which the individual experiences intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges, and associated sexual behaviors that are out of control and interfere with daily functioning.
Voyeur
A person who experiences sexual arousal from viewing unsuspecting person(s) who are nude, undressing, or having sex.
Exhibitionist
A person who derives sexual gratification from exposing his genitals to a nonconsenting person.
Nymphomania
An excessive, insatiable sex drive in a woman.
Satyriasis
An excessive, insatiable sex drive in a man; also called Don Juanism.
Hypersexuality
An excessive, insatiable sex drive in a person.
Asexuality
A lack of sexual attraction.
Asphyxiophilia
The practice of inducing in oneself a state of oxygen deficiency in order to create sexual arousal or to enhance excitement and orgasm; also called erotic asphyxiation.
Zoophilia
Sexual contact with an animal; also called bestiality or sodomy.
Frotteurism
Deriving sexual satisfaction from fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving touching or rubbing one’s genitals against the body of a nonconsenting person.
Troilism
Three people having sex together.
Saliromania
A desire to damage or soil a woman or her clothes.
Coprophilia or urophilia
Deriving sexual satisfaction from contact with feces.
Necrophilia
Sexual contact with a dead person.
Sexsomnia
Refers to automatic, unintentional sexual behaviors during sleep; also called sleep sex.
