Paraphilias

The term paraphilia was created by the Greek roots meaning “to the side of” and philos which means “loving”. Individuals that have a paraphilic disorder have unusual patterns of sexual attraction that involve arousal sexually in response to something they like to engage in. Many paraphilia’s are harmless and victimless. The DSM-5 has a list of abnormal patterns that are looked upon as mental disorders that involve emotional distress. For some individuals engaging in their acts is their only way…

When studying the relationship between science and social policy, many of the biggest issues revolve around sex. Eugenicists seek to change who has sex, opponents to birth control believe contraception promotes sex outside of marriage, and the controversies over homosexuality and apotemnophilia focus on whether these titles are descriptions of identity or sexual perversions. For many people in present day, sex is something that is between consenting adult partners and that policy is not, or…

analysis. In order to understand zoophile as differentiated from bestiality as an orientation, paraphilia, or lifestyle, it is critical to first decipher the sexual desires and actions of such individuals through a queer theorist lens and acknowledging the role of power dynamics. Sociologists and zoophiles recognize the importance of considering and analyzing zoophilia within the LGBTQ+ spectrum and as a paraphilia. This paper discusses zoophilia as it relates to sexual desires, actions, and…

Fred West shows the characteristics of the paraphilia hebephiliac. Fred was recurrently and intensively sexually aroused by specifically women who have gone through puberty, another indicator of this paraphilia is his asking of women on the streets before he abducted them if they were virgins or not. Fred’s crimes did include the sexual abuse of pre-pubescent women, such as his…

Due to his childhood, Jeffrey Dahmer had a fear of abandonment. This was one of the main reasons he committed the murders. A few times, Dahmer murdered because he was afraid that the victim was going to leave, and once he started to eat his victims it was because he claimed it would be better to have them died then to let them leave. He admitted to eating a victim bicep, stating that “it was big and wanted to try it.” He later confessed that cannibalism made him feel like his victims were a…

I believe that American culture is in the state of sexual freedom. This is evident by the acceptance rate of homosexuality, advocacy of “deviant” sexual behavior and sexual relationships, high rate of premarital sex, and comparisons with other cultures. I think the freedom of choosing who to become one’s sexual partner is a part of the sexual freedom. As the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, homosexuality is shown to be more accepted by Americans. Attitudes towards homosexuality became more…

normalization of child sexual abuse to the specific typology of young boys, especially if he was victimized. With pedophilia itself, a psychiatric disorder, a form of paraphilia (Psychology Today, 2017), the sexually violent offense of kidnapping, rape, sodomy, and abuse, harassment and confinement is the 'acting out' of the paraphilia - the…

hypnosis is the changes in perception or behavior due to changes in the state of consciousness, hypnosis is like having a daydreaming, you are conscious but you tune out most of the distracting stimuli around you. OPERANT CONDITIONING: If i reached my goal and become a top executives someday i would give bonuses to my staff that works under me so they would perform better but if they didn't finish their work before the deadline they won't get a bonus. CLASSICAL CONDITIONING: my coworker said…

Profiling is one of the many tools that forensic psychologists have at their disposal in order to assist the legal system and law enforcement in arresting and prosecuting criminals. Profiling is done in two different ways: deductive and inductive. Through the deductive method one starts with a broad theory or hypothesis and then breaks that theory down to come to a conclusion based on evidence. The inductive method is the opposite. It takes observations and examples and uses them to conclude…

and pleasure. Although, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. So, when is it considered abnormal? According to The Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology it is considered abnormal when it falls under the category of a paraphilic disorder. “Paraphilias are patterns in which individuals repeatedly have intense sexual urges or fantasies or display sexual behaviors that involve objects or situations outside the usual sexual norms.” Comer continues to describe how this could include children,…