Normal and Abnormal Behavior Flashcards
Basically the objectives for this are:
1) Understand the ways the human sexuality has changed over time.
2) Develop a basic knowledge of how paraphilias are defined in psychiatry
3) Questins for health care providers to consider to determine when a sexual behavior is problematic
What’s the purpose of sex
- Reproduction- to many cultures, this is the one and only purpose
- Pleasure
- Intimacy
- Stress reduction
- Communication
- Preservation of family structure
- Status?
The point is, people have sex for different reasons. You have to consider this when advising people medically on sexual practices.
Patient comes in with a sexual concern. ALWAYS think about what this concern means to the patient.
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Up until 1984, blow jobs were illegal in TN
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Top search word for males
Teens, Also tend to search things like anatomical things
Usually do it on their own
domination/submission stuff
Women search for
Stuff that’s more psychological, status,
Psychiatric classification of paraphilias
- Voyeurism
- Exhibitionism
- Frottage— walking up behind ppl and humping them
- Sexual masochism
- Sexual sadism
- pedophilia
- fetish
- Transvestism
Transvestism, sadism, fetish, masochism are not diagnosed as a disorder unless the person is bothered by it
Here are some questions you may want to address with the pt if they come to you with concerns:
- Is the behavior consensual?
- Is there health risk involved?
- Does the behavior interfere with other areas of functioning?
- What is the impact of the sexual behavior on other relationships?