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Chapter 15: Atypical Sexuality Flashcards

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Fetishism?

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  • erotic fixation on an object, material or body part.
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What are the two broad categories of fetishes?

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A. Media fetish (eg. leather, silk)

B. Form fetish (eg. stocking, shoe)

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Explain the normal-abnormal continuum for fetishism? (4)

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  1. Mild preference
  2. Strong preference
  3. Necessity
  4. Substitute for human partner
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When/where on the normal-abnormal continuum for fetishism does it actually become an issue?

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  • when the individual feels discomfort! (or others involved?)
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Transvestism?

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  • sexual gratification from cross-dressing
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Sadism?

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  • sexual gratification from inflicting pain
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Masochism?

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  • sexual gratification from experiencing pain.
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Which are more common: Sadists or Masochists?

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  • Masochists!
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With regards to masochism and sadism; which sex is more likely to belong to one of these categories?

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  • males for both vs females!

L> females are more likely to play the role of a dominatrix (for hire)

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Sadomasochistic behaviour (S&M) is often real or not real?

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  • not real…normally its just theoretical!
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Sadomasochistic behaviour (S&M): 
1. This behaviour is often accompanied by \_\_\_ and \_\_\_. (ex?)
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  • ritual
  • gadgetry
    ex: bondage and discipline
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Sadomasochistic behaviour (S&M):  
2. A \_\_\_\_ and \_\_\_\_ subculture exists.
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  • dominance and submission

L> people play roles and act out scripts

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What are the causes of Sadomasochistic behaviour (S&M) ?

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  • UNKNOWN BRO.
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Voyeurism?

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-the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature.

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Voyeurism:

1. Voyeurs like the element of?

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  • risk

L> they want to view strangers and go undetected

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Voyeurism:

2. Most voyeurs are or are not dangerous?

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  • not dangerous
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Voyeurism:

3. What are the two main characteristics of a dangerous voyeur?

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  1. Enter the confines of a building to view their subject

2. Draw the attention of their subject to the fact that they are in fact watching them.

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Exhibitionism?

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he act of exposing in a public or semi-public context those parts of one’s body that are not normally exposed – for example, the breasts, genitals or buttocks. The practice may arise from a desire or compulsion to expose themselves in such a manner to groups of friends or acquaintances, or to strangers for their amusement or sexual satisfaction or to shock the bystander. (wiki! -probs should be citing oops)

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Exhibitionism:

1. Who are mostly likely to be exhibitionists? (male, female, heterosexual, homosexual? etc)

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  1. almost always a heterosexual male exposing himself to a woman.
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Exhibitionism:

2. In the early 1970’s, __% of all arrests for sexual offences in the US were for exhibitionism.

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  • 30%
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Exhibitionism:
3. In New Brunswick, in 1996, __% of male sex offenders were convicted of exhibitionism.
L> rate of recidivism
L> progression to more serious offences?

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  • 6%
    L> there is a high rate of recidivism estimated to be 48% based on Canadian stats.
    L> only occasionally leads to more serious offences (ie. sexual offences): 6% in one Canadian study..
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Exhibitionism

4. An estimated / of university women have been flashed.

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1/3

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Exhibitionism:

-Exhibitionists are typically dangerous or not dangerous?

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  • not dangerous

L> their motive is to shock or upset women.

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Exhibitionism:

- What is the best way for a victim to respond?

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-show indifference ! (YAWN)

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Frotteurism??

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  • physical contact with others in public places without their knowledge or consent.
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Asphyxiaphilia?

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  • autoerotic asphyxia
  • a paraphilia in which sexuoerotic arousal and orgasm are dependent on or facilitated by the lack of oxygen produced by self-strangulation or from being strangulated or asphyxiated by a sexual partner, up to, but not including, the loss of consciousness
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Asphyxiaphilia:

1. Enhanced sexual arousal from what?

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  • oxygen deprivation (eg. partial strangling)
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Asphyxiaphilia:

2. This is a cause of accidental what?

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deaths

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Example of autoerotic deaths from lecture?

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  1. electric floor buffer
    L> 19 year old male found dead with this between thighs.
    L> burning via electrical issues
    L> current passed through thighs and exited the shoulder.
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What are the four main autoerotic fatalities?

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  1. electrocution
  2. freon inhalation
  3. amylmitrite
  4. cardiovascular disease
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Zoophilia??

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  • a paraphilia involving cross-species sexual activity between human and non-human animals or a fixation on such practice. (wiki)
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Zoophilia:
1. Kinsey report (1948) that _% of boys and almost _% of farm boys had participated in this kind of behaviour. _% were females, usually involving what kinds of animals?

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8%

  • 50%
  • 3.6%
  • the family pet
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Zoophilia:

2. Typically this is an _____ activity.

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  • adolescence
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Zoophilia:
3. In adults there is a link between zoophilia and what?
L> where is zoophilia most commonly expressed?

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  • other mental disturbances

L> higher zoophilia in psychiatric populations

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Pedophilia:

1. Pedophile?

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-a person whose sexual interest is in children (<13 years old) exceeds their interest in sexually mature adults.

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Pedophilia:

2. Child molester?

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  • any adult who has sexual contact with a prepubescent child.
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Pedophilia:

3. Are the two terms pedophile and child molester interchangeable?

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  • no they mean two different things

L> they involve to separate populations but there is overlap seen.

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Pedophilia:

4. What is the age range of a child in legal terms within Canada?

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  • any one below 16 years old
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Pedophilia:
5. Intrafamilial vs Extrafamilial offenders?
L> which is more likely?

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  1. within family
  2. outside of the family
    L> extrafamilial offenders are more likely to reoffend than intrafamilial offenders
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Pedophilia:

- do both heterosexual and homosexual pedophiles exist? If so is there a more common one?

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  • yes both do

L> heterosexual pedophiles are 2x/3x more common than homosexual pedophiles.

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Pedophilia:

- Like what was seen with zoophilia do people that fall into this category tend to have more mental disorders as well?

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  • no, they tend not to have many other disorders

l> generally they are fairly normal

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Pedophilia:

- Do female ones exist?

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  • they are relatively rare but they do exist

pedophiles and child molesters that is

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Other Sexual Variations:

- List the other five variations!

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  1. Salicomania
  2. Telephone scatalogia
  3. coprophilia and urophilia
  4. Klismaphilia
  5. necrophilia
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Other Sexual Variations:

1. Salicomania ?

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  • the desire to soil a woman
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Other Sexual Variations:

2. Telephone scatalogia??

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  • obscene phone calls
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Other Sexual Variations:

3. Coprophilia and urophilia?

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  • excrement and urine
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Other Sexual Variations:

4. Klismaphilia ?

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  • enemas
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Other Sexual Variations:

5. Necrophilia?

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  • corpses
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Treatment for Paraphilia:

1. SSRI’s?

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  • cause sexual dysfunction and reduce OCD, possible efficacy in cases of less serve paraphilias
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Treatment for Paraphilia:
2. Medroxyprogesterone acetate?
L> Depo-Provera

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  • depresses the secretion go GnRH by the hypothalamus which results in low levels of testosterone
    L>reducing sexual desires and behaviours
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Treatment for Paraphilia:

- Drug treatment for paraphilias is also sometimes referred to as what?

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chemical castration

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Treatment for Paraphilia:

3. What is the last resort for treatment of paraphilias?

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  • physical castration
    L> for men this involves removing of the testicles which is the main source of androgens.
    L> rapid drop in circulating androgen levels and a somewhat variable decline in sexual desires and behaviour including physiological responses. (i.e. erection, ejaculation)
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Castration may or may not be the more effect ion form of treatment of parahilia in regards to prevention of sexual recidivism?

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may be more effective!
L> Prentky 1997- before surgery the participants were those whom committed multiple and or violent offences prior and were at a very high risk for reoffending : after the surgery: 1% to 7% did in-fact reoffend.

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Examples from class about insurance and autoerotic fatalities! (4)

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Electrocution up dick, electoral floor buffer incident, vacuum and the old man having a heart attack

55
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Zoophila example from class?

L> dirty deed with a sheep/goat

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here are three ways to do the deed with a lamb/sheep, picket fence, cliff and do you know the third one? I think it was putting the animal’s legs in the pantlegs

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