Chapter 17 - Atypical Sexual Variations

Question 1

Paraphilia

Answer 1

An atypical pattern of sexual arousal or behavior that becomes problematic in the eyes of the individual or society, such as fetishism or exhibitionism. The urges are recurrent and are either acted on or are distressing to the individual.

Question 2

Fetishism

Answer 2

A paraphilia in which an inanimate object such as an article of clothing or items made of rubber, leather, or silk elicit sexual arousal.

Question 3

Partialism

Answer 3

A paraphilia related to fetishism in which sexual arousal is exaggeratedly associated with a particular body part, such as feet, breasts, or buttocks.

Question 4

Transvestism

Answer 4

A paraphilia in which a person repeatedly crossdresses to achieve sexual arousal or gratification, or is troubled by persistent, recurring urges to cross-dress.

Question 5

Exhibitionism

Answer 5

A paraphilia characterized by persistent, powerful urges and sexual fantasies involving exposing one’s genitals to unsuspecting strangers for the purpose of achieving sexual arousal or gratification.

Question 6

Telephone Scatologia

Answer 6

A paraphilia characterized by the making of obscene telephone calls.

Question 7

Voyeurism

Answer 7

A paraphilia characterized by strong, repetitive urges and related to sexual fantasies of observing unsuspecting strangers who are naked, disrobing, or engaged in sexual relations.

Question 8

Sexual Masochism

Answer 8

A paraphilia characterized by the desire or need for pain or humiliation to enhance sexual arousal so that gratification may be attained.

Question 9

Bondage

Answer 9

Ritual restraint, as by shackles, as practiced by many sexual masochists.

Question 10

Sexual Sadists

Answer 10

People who become sexually aroused by inflicting pain or humiliation on others.

Question 11

Hypoxyphilia

Answer 11

A practice in which a person seeks to enhance sexual arousal, usually during masturbation, by becoming deprived of oxygen.

Question 12

Sexual Sadism

Answer 12

A paraphilia characterized by the desire or need to inflict pain or humiliation on others to enhance sexual arousal so that gratification is attained.

Question 13

Sadomasochism (S&M)

Answer 13

A mutually gratifying sexual interaction between consenting sex partners in which sexual arousal is associated with the infliction and receipt of pain or humiliation.

Question 14

Frotteurism

Answer 14

A paraphilia characterized by recurrent, powerful sexual urges and related fantasies involving rubbing against or touching a non consenting person.

Question 15

Toucherism

Answer 15

A practice related to frotteurism and characterized by the persistent urge to fondle non consenting strangers.

Question 16

Zoophilia

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A paraphilia involving persistent or repeated sexual urges and related fantasies involving sexual contact in animals.

Question 17

Necrophilia

Answer 17

A paraphilia characterized by desire for sexual activity with corpses.

Question 18

Klismaohilia

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A paraphilia in which sexual arousal is derived from the use of enemas.

Question 19

Coprophilia

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A paraphilia in which sexual arousal is attained in connection with feces.

Question 20

Urophilia

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A paraphilia in which sexual arousal is associated with urine.

Question 21

Hypersexual Disorder

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A new category of sexual disorders characterized by problematic sexual excesses and failed efforts to control them as expressed through paraphilia and other inappropriate sexual activities, such as public masturbation, uncontrolled use of Internet pornography, unprotected sex with multiple partners, finding of sex partners on the Internet, and so forth.

Question 22

Lovemap

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A representation in the mind and in the brain of the idealized lover and the idealized erotic activity with the lover.

Question 23

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

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Therapy that attempts to directly change the ways in which people view events and respond to them, relying frequently on principles of learning.

Question 24

Systematic Desensitization

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A method that uses muscle relaxation to break the connection between a stimulus (such as a fetishistic object) and an inappropriate response (sexual arousal).

Question 25

Aversion Therapy

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A method for terminating undesirable sexual behavior in which the behavior is repeatedly paired with an aversive stimulus such as electric shock to condition an aversion.

Question 26

Covert Sensitization

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A form of aversion therapy in which thoughts of engaging in undesirable behavior are paired repeatedly with imagined aversive stimuli.

Question 27

Pedophiles

Answer 27

Persons with a paraphilia involving sexual interest in children.

Question 28

Social Skills Training

Answer 28

Cognitive behavioral therapy methods for building social skills that rely on a therapist’s coaching and practice.

Question 29

Orgasmic Reconditioning

Answer 29

A method for strengthening the connection between sexual arousal and appropriate sexual stimuli (such as fantasies about an adult of the other sex) by repeatedly pairing the desired stimuli with orgasm.