Atypical Sexual Behavior Notes

Atypical Sexual Behavior

What Constitutes Atypical Sexual Behavior?

• Paraphilia: Uncommon sexual expression, going "beyond usual or typical love."
  • Terms used to describe it: Deviant, variant, perverted, aberrant, abnormal.
  • Characterized by sexual arousal/response that depends on some unusual, extraordinary, or bizarre activity.
  • Classified as noncoercive vs. coercive paraphilias.
  • These behaviors represent extremes on a continuum.
  • More males are reported and prosecuted for paraphilias.

Summary of Sexual Paraphilias

Here's a summary table of several paraphilias, including their names, descriptions, and classifications:

Noncoercive Paraphilias

Fetishism

• Sexual arousal primarily from a body part or inanimate object.

Transvestic Fetishism

• Sexual arousal from wearing clothes of the other sex.

Sexual Sadism and Sexual Masochism

• Sadism: Sexual arousal from giving physical or psychological pain.
• Masochism: Sexual arousal from receiving pain/bondage.

Other Noncoercive Paraphilias

• Autoerotic asphyxia: Reducing blood supply to the brain during heightened sexual arousal.
• Klismaphilia: Receiving enemas.
• Coprophilia: Contact with feces.
• Urophilia: Contact with urine ("golden showers").

Coercive Paraphilias

Exhibitionism

• Exposing genitals to an involuntary observer.
• Some offenders commit more serious crimes.
• Suggested response:
  • Calmly ignore it.
  • Leave immediately.
  • Report to authorities ASAP.

Obscene Phone Calls

• Sexual arousal from the response to the call.
• Usually a shy, insecure male.
• Suggested response:
  • Gently hang up, ignore re-call.
  • Screen calls, call tracing.
  • Report and ask for a new number.

Voyeurism

• Sexual arousal from observing others undressing or engaging in sexual activity without their consent.
• Offenders often feel inadequate and lack socio-sexual skills.
  • Tend to be young men in their 20s.
• More likely to observe strangers than acquaintances.
• Video voyeurism: Uses small video cameras, which can be hidden in various places.

Other Coercive Paraphilias

• Frotteurism: Rubbing against an unwilling victim.
• Zoophilia: Sex with animals.
• Necrophilia:
  • Viewing or having intercourse with a corpse.
  • Usually involves a simulated corpse.

Sexual Addiction

• Hard to establish what is excessive.
• Mention of Cybersex.

Here's a review of the terms you listed, based on the provided note:

• Paraphilia: Uncommon sexual expression beyond usual or typical love. Includes both noncoercive and coercive types.
• Frotteurism: Obtaining sexual pleasure by pressing or rubbing against another person in a crowded public place; a coercive paraphilia.
• Fetishism: Sexual arousal associated with focus on an inanimate object or body part; a noncoercive paraphilia.
• Sadomasochistic: Relates to sexual sadism (arousal from giving pain) and sexual masochism (arousal from receiving pain); both are noncoercive paraphilias.
• Klismophilia: Sexual pleasure associated with receiving enemas; a noncoercive paraphilia.
• Coprophilia: Sexual arousal associated with contact with feces; a noncoercive paraphilia.
• Autoerotic asphyxia: Enhancement of sexual arousal by oxygen deprivation; a noncoercive paraphilia.
• Voyeurism: Sexual arousal associated with observing naked bodies or sexual activities of people without their consent; a coercive paraphilia.
• Exhibitionism: Sexual arousal associated with exposing one's genitals to an unwilling observer; a coercive paraphilia.
• Transvestic fetishism: Sexual arousal derived from wearing clothing of the other sex; a noncoercive paraphilia.

Note: The terms "Transsexualism" and "Transvestism" are not explicitly defined in the provided notes. Transvestism is related to Transvestic Fetishism but broadly refers to the practice of wearing clothes of the opposite sex.