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Gender Identity Disorder
People feel they are the opposite sex
Have aversion to same-sex clothing and activities
Typically begins in childhood
6.6x more frequent in boys
Causes of GID
Influenced by hormones
Related to sex hormone levels during pregnancy
Therapies of GID
Altering body to suit person's psychology
- Sex reassignment surgery
- Hormone administration

Altering psychology to match person's body
Paraphilias (9)
Disorders involving sexual attraction to unusual objects or sexual activities that are unusual in nature
Last at least six months and must cause significant distress or impairment
Fetishism
Reliance on inanimate objects for sexual arousal
Transvetic Fetishism
A male who is sexually aroused by dressing in women's clothing, although he still regards himself as a man
Heterosexual
Masculine in appearance, demeanour, sexual preference
Pedophilia
Sexual gratification through physical and often sexual contact with prepubescent children
Incest
Sexual relations between close relatives for whom marriage is forbidden
Most common between brotherxsister, fatherxdaughter
Unusually patriarchal and traditional family structure
More prevalent when mother is absent or disabled
Voyeurism
Sexual gratification by watching others in state of undress or having sexual relations
Typically do not get aroused by watching others who have consented
Exhbitionism
Sexual gratification by exposing one's genitals to an unwilling stranger
Frotteurism
Sexually oriented touching of an unsuspecting person
Sexual sadism
Increasing sexual gratification through administering pain or humiliation
Sexual masochism
Obtaining or increasing sexual gratification through subjecting oneself to pain or humiliation
Therapies of paraphilias
Behaviour techniques:
Orgasmic reorientation - substituting problematic things to more socially acceptable ones
Rape (2)
Forced - sexual intercourse with an unwilling partner
Statutory - sex with someone underage
Rape characteristics
Act of violence, aggression, domination and an act of sex
Very high hostility towards women
Lack social skills
Low self-esteem
Low levels of empathy for their victims
Sexual desire disorders
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder
- Lack of desire for sex, absent sexual fantasies/urges
- More women than men

Sexual aversion disorder
- Active avoidance of nearly all genital contact with another person
Sexual arousal disorders
Female sexual arousal disorder (20%)
Male erectile disorder (3-9%)
Orgasmic disorders
Female orgasmic disdorder
- Absence of orgasm after period of normal sexual excitement

Male orgasmic disorder
- Difficulty ejaculating

Premature ejaculation
Sexual pain disorders
Dyspareunia
- Persistent or recurrent pain during sex

Vaginismus
- Involuntary spasms of the outer third of the vag to a degree that makes sex impossible