sexual behaviors

Question 1

Popular Themes

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Group sex (89%), sadomasochism (60% giving pain and 65% receiving pain), and desires for novelty, adventure, and variety.

Question 2

Bondage and Discipline:
Prevalence:

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65% of university students have sexual fantasies of being tied up and 62% have fantasies of tying someone up.

Question 3

BDSM Munch

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An infocinal gathering of people who are interested in BDSM, often at a restaurant, so they can eat, socialize, and meet other people with similar interests

Question 4

Four Clusters of Sadomasochism:

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Hypermasculinity (eg., dildo, enema), administering and receiving pain, physical restriction, and humiliation

Question 5

Strictly Spanking Party’s

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Bimonthly parties for those who like to be spanked, and spankings are the main activity.

Question 6

Lovemap Theories

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During childhood we develop a template for sexual relationships. Disruptions of these templates → paraphilias.

Question 7

Psychological Masochism Theory

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Motivated by a desire to escape from self-awareness. Helps escape from being conscious of the self.

Question 8

Satyriasis:

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Hypersexuality in men

Question 9

Most Common Unconventional Behaviours

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Compulsive masturbation (67%), protracted promiscuity (56%), and dependence on pornography (41%).

Question 10

Most Common Paraphilias:

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Exhibitionism (35%), voyeurism (27%), and pedophilia (25%).

Question 11

Paraphilic Hypersexuality:

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1/3 experience extremely high frequencies of maladaptive behaviours and various additional paraphilic interests (fetishes, voyeurism, etc.).

Question 12

Avoidant Masturbation

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Men who spend a great deal of time viewing pornography and several hours per day masturbating

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Chronic Adultery:

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Those who chronically cheat on spouses. Men in this category report a desire for daily sex and that sex with their wives is infrequent or does not occur, due to dyspareunia, very low libido, or past sexual abuse.

Question 14

Sexual Guilt:

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Sexual activity is within the normal range but they feel extremely guilty about it. Often self-referrals, and more likely to be women than persons in the first three groups.

Question 15

Designated Patient:

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Those referred to by romantic partner, the partner has very restrictive beliefs about sex and discovers some activity by the patient that they disapprove of. The patient shows no signs of behavioural extremes/paraphilic disorder.

Question 16

Non-Sexual Comorbidity

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Most common being personality disorders, hypomania, or developmental delays. Sometimes symptoms are related to medications.

Question 17

Online Sexual Behaviour:

Three Categories:

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Non-arousal OSA:
Solitary-Arousal OSA:
Partnered-Arousal OSA

Question 18

Non-arousal OSA:

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Looking for sex information, looking for advice about sexual relationships, joining an online dating service: and joining an online kink community.

Question 19

Solitary-Arousal OSA:

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Examples include viewing sexually explicit pictures or videos; watching others engaged in sex on a webcam; and posting a video of yourself engaging in sex.

Question 20

Partnered-Arousal OSA

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Having an avatar engage in sexual activity with another avatar, participating in an online sexual chat for sexual arousal; using an electronic sex toy that is controlled through the Internet by someone else; and engaging in sexual acts by yourself that someone on IM was telling you to do for a webcam (cybersex

Question 21

Asphyxiophilia

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Desire to induce oxygen deficiency for arousal, often through strangulation (rope, pillow, plastic bag).

Question 22

Saliromania

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Mainly in men; desire to damage or soil a woman or her clothes or the image of a woman, such as a painting or statue.

Question 23

Coprophilia & Urophilia

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Excretion based; coprophilia (feces) and urophilia (urine). To be urinated on known as “golden showers” or “water sports.”

Question 24

Sexsomnia

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Also known as sleep sex, refers to involuntary sexual behaviors during nonrapid eye movement sleep, often occurring in the first few hours.

Question 25

Preventative Treatments:

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Primary Prevention: Intervening in home life or in other factors during childhood to help prevent problems from developing or trying to teach people how to cope with crises or stress so that problems do not develop.

Secondary Prevention: Identify people who are at high risk to develop a problem as early as possible, so that difficulties are minimized.

Primary Problems: It is difficult to do. One problem is that the dianostic categories are not nearly as clear-cut in real life, and multiple diagnoses are not uncommon. If it is unclear how to diagnose sexual variations, it is difficult to figure out how to prevent them.

Question 26

Multisystemic Therapy (MST)

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Involves family therapy, behavioural parent (skills) training, and CBT.