Sexual deviation

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Sexual deviation

sRadoslav BlahoKarol KleinmannIvana KozúbkováTranslated and updated by Branislav Chrenka & Ezgi Ince

Quiz

Acousticofilia is a sexual arousal from:

– undressing

(apodysofilia)

– certain sounds

– pain

(algolagnia)

Question no.2

Autogynefilia is a sexual arousal from :

– dressing as woman

– picturing one’s own death

(autoassassinofilia)

– self mutilation

(autobasiofilia)

Question no.3

Dacryfilia is a sexual arousal from :

– paying for sex

(chrematistofilia)

– watching animals’ copulation

(faunoifilia)

– licking the tears

Question no.4

Fecofilia is a sexual arousal from :

– excrements

(coprofilia)

– watching the defecation

– vomiting

(emetofilia, or vomerofilia)

Question no.5Sitofilic:

− Must use the food during the sex

− Prefers sexual intercourse with bread

(Yeastality)

− Is aroused by stuff animals or people dressed in animals costumes

(Plushophilia)

Introduction

• When is the sexual activity considered as normal and when it is already a deviation?

• Is it inborn disposition or are the deviations caused by education, family, experiences?

• Can we treat a sexual deviation?

What is normal and what is deviant?

• The basic starting point of deviations’ definition is more concrete delimitation of the sexual preferences which are considered as normal.

• The deviant sexual focus and behaviour will then be the one that will yaw from such arbitrarily chosen limits.

We can consider normal such activities that are agreed on among

psychosexually and somatosexually mature and directly non-bloodlined

partners, and that do not lead to their psychic or physical harm.

Definition of sexual deviationaccording to the International Classification of

DiseasesF 65 - disorders of sexual preference - parafilias

Conditions:• An individual repeatedly experiences intensive

sexual desires and fantasies which are linked to unusual objects or activities

• An individual whether accommodates these desires or is obviously annoyed by them

• The preference is present for at least 6 months

Classification

Basically we distinguish 2 types of sexual deviations:

Exhibitionism

• One of the most frequent deviation, the deviant person is sexually aroused by exposing himself/herself naked in front of unknown individuals.

Froteurism and Toucherism

• Frotteur - sexual arousal from rubbing the unknown individuals in public crowded places

• Toucheur - sexually aroused by touching the intimate areas of unknown individuals.

Voyeurism

• Sexual arousal by watching intimate activities of unaware anonymous individuals

Pathological sexual agresivity

• Arousal is reached by fighting the resistance of anonymous woman and minimalization of their „cooperation“

• Among most dangerous

Sadism• Subject is sexually

aroused when torturing, totally dominating and controling the sexual partner

• The domination and torture can be both physical and psychological

Masochism

• Subject is sexually aroused when being tortured and dominated

• The subject needs to feel his/her own humiliation and suffering to reach the sexual satisfaction

Fetishism

• Sexually arousal by using or thinking about inanimate objects or viewing a particular part of the body

Pedophilia

• Sexual fantasies, urges or behaviour involving children under 14 years old.

Approaches

Social-constructivistic approach

Essencialistic approach

„The environment is to blame!“

The genes are to

blame!“

• Normal sexual reactivity is conditioned by influence of multiple hormones

• An assumption that sex and agression are mediated by identical neural structures, namely in diencephalon and frontal lobe (Zvolský and al., 1996)

• An assumption, that human sexual behaviour is influenced by past experience (Ford & Beach, 1951)

• underline causal role of psychotraumatizing events during the childhood and adolescence of a sexual delinquent and also characteristics of his family

References:

• GRAHAM, J. T., CRIGHTON, D. 1996. Psychology for Forensic Practitioners. New York: Routledge, 1996. p.146- 159. ISBN 0- 415-12888-9

• ROSENTHAL, D. 1971 Genetics of Psychopathology. New York: McGraw- Hill Book Company, 1971. p. 130-132.

• Kaplan’s Textbooks of Psychiatry