Paraphilic Disorders

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Selected for specific listing and assignment of diagnostic criteria because they are relatively common and some are classed as criminal offenses due to their noxiousness and potential harm to others

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Paraphilic disorders

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Any intense and persistent sexual interest other than in genital stimulation

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Paraphilia

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Sexual interest in activities that equals or exceeds one’s interest in copulation or equivalent interaction with another person

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Anomalous Activity Preferences

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Anomalous activity preferences that resemble distorted components of human courtship behavior

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Courtship disorders

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Anomalous activity preferences that involve pain and suffering

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Algolagnic disorders

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Sexual interest in children, corpses or amputees or in nonhuman animals, such as horses or dogs or in inanimate objects

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Anomalous Target Preferences

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Paraphilia that causes distress or impairment to individual or paraphilia whose satisfaction entails personal harm, or risk of harm, to others

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Paraphilic disorder

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Shared criteria of paraphilic disorders

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Recurrent and intense sexual arousal + as manifested by fantasies, urges or behaviors + acting on these sexual urges with a nonconsenting person or related clinically significant distress or impairment + over the period of at least 6 months

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Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from observing an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing or engaging in sexual activity

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Voyeuristic Disorder

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Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from exposure of one’s genitals to an unsuspecting person

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Exhibitionistic Disorder

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Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person

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Frotteuristic Disorder

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Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from the act of being humiliated, beaten, bound or otherwise made to suffer

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Sexual Masochism Disorder

specifier: with asphyxiophilia

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Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from the physical or psychological suffering of another person

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Sexual Sadism Disorder

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Recurrent and intense sexual arousal involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally 13 years or younger)

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Pedophilic Disorder 
(must be at least age 16 years and at least 5 years older than the child)

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Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from either use of nonliving objects or highly specific focus on nongenital body part/s

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Fetishistic Disorder

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Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from crossdressing

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Tranvestic Disorder

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paraphilic symptoms that cause clinically significant distress or impairment but does not meet full criteria and clinician specifies the reason

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Other Specified Paraphilic Disorder

e.g. telephone scatologia, necrophilia, zoophilia, coprophilia, urophilia

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Paraphilic symptoms that cause clinically significant distress or impairment but does not meet full criteria and clinician does not choose to communicate the reason, possibly due to insufficient information

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Unspecified Paraphilic Disorder