Test 2: Variations in Sexual Behavior

Question 1

Sexual Variation

Answer 1

behavior that are not statistically typical of American sexual behaviors AKA: atypical sexual behavior (doesn’t have to mean abnormal but that majority of people do not engage in the behavior)

Question 2

Paraphilia

Answer 2

DSM-5 defines as “Intense and persistent sexual interest other than sexual interest in genital stimulation or preparatory fondling with phenotypically normal, physical mature, consenting human partners”

Question 3

DSM- 5 distinguishes between paraphilia which are considered to be…

Answer 3

relatively harmless and harmful sexual behaviors = paraphilic disorder

Question 4

Paraphilic disorder

Answer 4

Causing distress or impairment of the individual; A paraphiliac whose causes personal harm or risk of harm to others\recurrent occurring over a period of 6 months

Question 5

Non-coercive paraphilia

Answer 5

involve only oneself or another consenting adult; usually regarded as harmless/benign (fetishism, transvestism)

Question 6

Coercive paraphilia

Answer 6

represent non-consensual activity; involves victimization harm they cause others or animals (Zoophilia, Voyeuris, Telephone scatologia, Frotteurism, Necrophilia, Pedophilia

Question 7

Nymphomania

Answer 7

abnormal or excessive sexual desire in a women and is usually applied to sexually active single women = what is an abnormal amount

Question 8

Satyriasis

Answer 8

abnormal or excessive sexual desire in a male and is usually applied to sexually active single males

Question 9

Fetishism

Answer 9

attraction to objects

Question 10

Transvestism

Answer 10

cross dressing not to be confused with transsexualism (usually wanting to change anatomical sex) cross-dressing usually is not attract to same sex

Question 11

Zoophilia

Answer 11

bestiality; sexual pleasure from animals

Question 12

Telephone scatologia

Answer 12

obscene phone calls to unsuspecting people – acts are compulsive repetitive made randomly

Question 13

Frotteurism

Answer 13

mashing – recurrent intense urge/fantasies over 6 months to touch rub against a non-consenting person for arousal

Question 14

Necrophilia

Answer 14

sex activity with a corpse

Question 15

Pedophilia

Answer 15

sexual urges / arousal with a child

Question 16

Sexual sadism

Answer 16

over a period of 6 months or more person experiences urges or fantasies involving acts of humiliated, beaten, bound, made to suffer for the purpose of sexual arousal

Question 17

Autoerotic asphyxia

Answer 17

strangulation with masturbation; cutting off O2 to the brain

Question 18

BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism)

Answer 18

Sexual gratification derived from being dominated, dominating another person, giving pain or receiving pain; derived from consensual acting out of scenes one person dominate and one submits, uses agreed upon scripts to give illusion of control (APA doesn’t list domination and submission as a paraphilic disorder; considered consensual and does not cause distress)

Question 19

Sexual sadism and sexual masochism causes…

Answer 19

distress, harm, involves a non-consenting partner

DSM-5 list criteria for diagnosing