Variations In Sexual Behavior

Question 0

General criteria for abnormal sexual behavior

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Varies with disorder
Fantasies, urges, or behaviors must have occurred for 6 months or more
Causes clinically significant distress or impairment to social, occupational, or other areas of functioning

Question 1

When is sexual behavior abnormal?

• social approach
• psychological approach

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Rare or not predicted by many people.

Social approach: violates the norms of society
Psychological approach: includes discomfort, inefficiency and bizarreness

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Gender dysphoria

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Gender identity disorder, discontent with the sex they were assigned at birth/gender roles associated with that sex

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Paraphilia

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Reoccurring, unconventional sexual behavior that involves specific sexual object choices

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Fetishes

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Sexual fantasies, urges, behaviors involving use of nonliving objects to produce or enhance sexual arousal, with or in the absence of a partner, over 6 months, causes sig. distress

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Media fetish

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The material of which the object is made is the source of arousal

Hard media- rubber or leather
Soft media- silk or fur

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Form fetish

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The object and its shape are what’s important for arousal

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Learning theory behind fetishes

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Result from classical conditioning, association is built between the fetish object and sexual arousal and orgasm

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Cognitive theory behind fetishes

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Serious cognitive distortion in that they perceive a non conventional stimulus as erotic

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Addiction theory behind fetishes

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Pathological relationship with a sexual event or process, substituting it for a healthy relationship with others

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Transvestism

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Dressing as a member of the other gender

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Drag queen

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Male homosexual, dress as a women

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Female impersonators

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Men who dress as women, often as part if an entertainment job

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Transvestism fetishism

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Heterosexual male who dresses in female clothing to produce or enhance sexual arousal

Almost exclusively male sexual variation

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Sadist

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Derives sexual satisfaction from inflicting pain on another person

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Masochist

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Derives sexual satisfaction from experiencing pain

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Bondage and discipline

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Use of physical or psychological restraints to enforce servitude

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Dominance and submission

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Use of power consensually given to control the sexual stimulation and behavior of the other person

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Sadomasochism (S-M)

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Rare
Causes are unknown
Separate fantasies appear more common than real life sadomasochistic behavior
One form of paraphilic behavior that involves a lot of women

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Voyeurism

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Person who becomes sexually aroused by secretly viewing nudes

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Scoptophilia

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Sexual variation of voyeurism where the person becomes sexually aroused by observing others sexual acts and genitals

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Exhibitionism

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Sexual pleasure from exposing his genitals to other in situations where it’s clearly inappropriate

May be consensually, culturally and legally defined

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Troilism

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Three people having sex

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Coprophilia

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Feces are important to sexual satisfaction

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Urophilia

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Urine is important to sexual satisfaction

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Saliromania

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Mainly in men, desire to damage or soil a women’s clothes or appearance

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Paraphilic infantilism

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Need to wear diapers and to urinate and poop themselves to becomes sexually aroused.

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Frotteurism

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Sexual fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving touching or rubbing ones genitals against the body of a non consenting person

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Zoophilia

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Sexual contact with an animal

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Necrophilia

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Sexual contact with a dead person

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Hyper sexuality

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Excessive, insatiable sex drive in either men or women

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Nymphomania

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Hyper sexuality in women

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Satyriasis

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Hyper sexuality in men

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Compulsive sexual behavior

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Disorder in which the individual experiences intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges and associated sexual behaviors

Intrusive, driven, repetitive 
Lacking impulse control
Incur social and legal sanctions
Interfere with personal and occupational functioning
Creates health risks

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Asexuality

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Lack of sexual attraction

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Asphyxiophilia

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Desire to induce in oneself a state of oxygen deficiency in order to create a sexual arousal or to enhance excitement and orgasm

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Cybersex

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Using any form of technology to engage in sexual activity (gaming, sex chat conversations, sexting, porn)
Characterized by anonymity, accessibility and affordability

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Hormonal treatment

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Use of drugs to reduce androgen production or block effects of androgen

Largest effect shown

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Psychopharmacological treatment

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Use of psychotropic medications to influence psychological functioning and behavior

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Skills training programs

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Include how to carry out a conversation, how to develop intimacy, basic sex education.

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Multisystematic therapy

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Targets young sex offenders
Combo of family therapy, skills training and cog-behavioral
Addresses youth and caregiver denial of offense, minimized access to victims, appropriate social experience

Youth in this program show sig. reductions in problematic behavior