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exhibitionism | abnormal impulse that causes one to expose the genitals to a member of the opposite sex |
fetishism | compulsive use of inanimate objects, or part of the body, as a stimulus to attain sexual gratification |
frotteurism | recurrent intense sexual urges & fantasies involving touching & rubbing against a nonconsenting person, usually in crowded places where arrest is unlikely |
necrophilia | abnormal conern or sexual intercourse with a dead body |
paraphilias | sexual behaviors involving unusual objects, activites, or situations that may impose clinically significant anxiety or problems in social, occupational or other areas of functioning |
pedophilia | unnatural desire for sexual relations with children |
sexual dysfunctions | degree of persistent or recurrent symptoms, subjective distress, or decrease in the quality of sexual stimulation during any phase of the sexual response cycle |
sexual masochism | recurrent strong sexual urges, behaviors, or sexually stimulating fantasies involving beating, binding, humiliating or otherwise causing the victim to suffer |
sexual orientation | individual preference or sexualy attraction |
sexual sadism | one receives sexual excitement from observing psychological or physical suffering by the victim while receiving additional satisfaction from the feelings of complete control over the victim |
sexuality | feelings & life of an individual as related to sex including the physical, chemical & psychological functioning characterized by gender & sexual behavior |
telephone scatologia | obscene phone calls that lead to sexual arousal |
transvestic fetishism | sexual arousal that results from cross-dressing by a man in women's clothing & fantasies of himself as a woman |
voyeurism | experiencing of sexual gratification by observing nude people or the sexual activity of others |
zoophilia | sexual arousal by sexual contact with animals |