Chapter 14: Variations in sexual behavior

Question 1

Paraphilia

Answer 1

Unusual, unconventional sexual behavior.

Question 2

Paraphillic disorder

Answer 2

Paraphilia that causes the person distress or impairs their functioning, or causes harm to self or others.

Question 3

Fetishism

Answer 3

A person’s sexual fixation on some object other than another human being and attachment of great erotic significance to that object.

Question 4

Drag queen

Answer 4

A man who dresses in women’s clothing.

Question 5

Female impersonator

Answer 5

A man or woman who impersonates a specific woman as part of a job in entertainment.

Question 6

Transvestism

Answer 6

The practice of dressing as a member of the other gender in order to experience sexual arousal.

Question 7

Sexual sadist

Answer 7

A person who experiences intense sexual arousal from the suffering of another person.

Question 8

Sexual masochist

Answer 8

A person who experiences intense sexual arousal from being beaten, bound, humiliated, or made to suffer.

Question 9

Bondage and discipline

Answer 9

The use of physical or psychological restraint to enforce servitude, from which both participants derive sensual pleasure.

Question 10

Dominance and submission

Answer 10

The use of power consensually given to control the sexual stimulation and behavior of the other person.

Question 11

Compulsive sexual behavior (CSB)

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Voyeur

Answer 12

A person who experiences sexual arousal from viewing unsuspecting person(s) who are nude, undressing, or having sex.

Question 13

Exhibitionist

Answer 13

A person who derives sexual gratification from exposing his genitals to a nonconsenting person.

Question 14

Nymphomania

Answer 14

An excessive, insatiable sex drive in a woman.

Question 15

Satyriasis

Answer 15

An excessive, insatiable sex drive in a man; also called Don Juanism.

Question 16

Hypersexuality

Answer 16

An excessive, insatiable sex drive in a person.

Question 17

Asexuality

Answer 17

A lack of sexual attraction.

Question 18

Asphyxiophilia

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Zoophilia

Answer 19

Sexual contact with an animal; also called bestiality or sodomy.

Question 20

Frotteurism

Answer 20

Deriving sexual satisfaction from fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving touching or rubbing one’s genitals against the body of a nonconsenting person.

Question 21

Troilism

Answer 21

Three people having sex together.

Question 22

Saliromania

Answer 22

A desire to damage or soil a woman or her clothes.

Question 23

Coprophilia or urophilia

Answer 23

Deriving sexual satisfaction from contact with feces.

Question 24

Necrophilia

Answer 24

Sexual contact with a dead person.

Question 25

Sexsomnia

Answer 25

Refers to automatic, unintentional sexual behaviors during sleep; also called sleep sex.