16 Types of paraphilias

Paraphilias are an attempt to define what is "normal" or "abnormal" regarding sexual behaviors. Today we consider as normal the fact that couples maintain varied sexual behaviors, the stimulation of different areas erogenous body, sexual games and different seduction techniques that help the couple to generate greater eroticism and lead them to act sexual. In short, different ways to promote the connection between them.

The abnormal instead would be given by what escapes from the legal and socially established. What is far from an intimate love connection between the couple and rather constitutes abuse or aggression, consented or not. Also when this type of abuse of power is exercised in front of another or when the excitement is only generated by external objects or parts of the body that do not correspond to erogenous points. In this Psychology-Online article, we will talk about what paraphilias are and we will explain to you 16types of paraphilias that are known today.

Index

1. What are paraphilias
2. Voyeurism
3. Exhibitionism
4. Telephone eschatology
5. Frotteurism
6. Sexual masochism
7. Sexual sadism
8. Pedophilia
9. Gerontophilia
10. Zoophilia
11. Necrophilia
12. Coercive paraphilic disorder
13. Fetishism
14. Transvestism
15. Urophilia and coprophilia
16. Infantilism
17. Suffocation

Formerly there was talk of perversions to define any act that will move away from love and avoid an intimate connection with another. He was referring to the sexual act away from all intimacy and leaving only the erotic sense of it, which, moreover, used to be focused on something foreign to the sexual organs and constituted a compulsion of something unresolved in the history of person.

However, this way of seeing sexuality was questioned a lot only with the purpose of generating a intimate connection and it was expanded to integrate other types of relationships, until the end paraphilias. Currently, according to the RAE, paraphilias are patterns of sexual behavior in which desire, arousal or pleasure is deviant and are expressed as atypical and abnormal.

But what can we understand then by atypical and abnormal? Pomeroy proposes five criteria to define sexual behavior as abnormal:

1. Statistical: sexual behavior is normal when it is practiced by the majority of the population and what is agreed upon as normal for the place, time, culture and social class influences here.
2. Phylogenetic or biological: if it corresponds to the sexual behavior of mammals.
3. Moral: consensus, visible in uses, customs and beliefs delivered by society.
4. Legal: the set of written norms and their sanctions that seek to defend people's sexual rights.
5. Social: socially dominant behaviors that do not harm society or its members.

Paraphilias many times cause significant discomfort in the person or interfere in the development of their daily life, affecting her social, work, interpersonal or family life. Next, we will see what the types of paraphilias are.

Voyeurism is defined as sexual arousalintense when observing a naked person, undressing or engaging in sexual activity without that person being aware that she is being spied on. There are certain important aspects that make the difference between a paraphilia or not, which are:

• The person who is being spied on does not know that he is being spied on nor has he given her consent and the spying act is violation of your privacy.
• Voyeurism is constituted by observation, fantasies, irrepressible desires to repeat the behavior again and by the behaviors and sexual acts that it triggers.
• To consider it voyeurism, it is necessary that the observer has planned the situation and has done it several times. Having seen a naked person by chance and having enjoyed that moment is not paraphilic behavior.

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Exhibitionism is defined as the pleasure a person feels when exposing their genitals to strangers that they find themselves unprepared. Showing intimate parts in an unexpected way, or the fantasy of doing so, is what generates arousal and sexual gratification to the exhibitionist How there is no consent from the other party, it is quite shocking and invasive for the other. It is also an act that constitutes a crime and an invasion of the privacy of others.

Telephone eschatology is one of the types of paraphilias in the person experiencing sexual arousal by generating obscene phone calls to strangers without their consent. It is considered a subtype of exhibitionism and voyeurism. This type of paraphilias are also part of thes other specified paraphilic disorders.

Frotteurism is the pleasure generated by the act of touching the genitals, through touching or friction, to an unknown person without your consent. This type of person usually prefers situations with large crowds of people, such as public transport or busy places, in order to fulfill their fantasies and make them come true. They seek physical contact to masturbate later. This conduct is also a crime and is considered a street sexual harassment.

Sexual masochism is one of the rare types of paraphilias in which the person feels a intense sexual arousal from being humiliated, beaten, tied up, or subjected to suffering in any other way. In addition, he is excited by the fantasy of imagining himself in such situations. It is considered a paraphilia because sexual arousal is related to violence.

One of the most common types of paraphilias. The sadist is the person who feels pleasure and is only able to get excited before the physical or psychological suffering of another person or the idea and fantasy of that. This type of practice is consensual most of the time between the sadistic-masochistic couple. Currently, there are even groups that meet to practice the Bdsm: Bondage, discipline, domination, sadism and masochism.

Pedophilia is the desire or need to have sexual intercourse with one or more pre-pubertal minors, generally under 13 years of age. It can also refer to habitual sexual impulses or fantasies with children that have not necessarily been fulfilled. Enter here from commercially acquired child pornography, to sexual abuse itself.

This type of paraphilia constitutes a serious crime, since the child is not aware of what is happening and does not Neither is empowered to decide to have sex because there is an inequality of power between the adult and the less.

Gerontofilia is another of the types of rare paraphilias that refers to the sexual desire or preference for elderly people or whose age is conspicuously older than that of the person who practices it. If sexual attraction occurs to elderly men it is known as alphamegamy, while when it occurs to elderly women it is known as matronolagnia.

We continue with more types of paraphilias. One that, although not much boasted, is usually common in certain contexts is bestiality. This refer to desire to have sex with animals, which can remain in a fantasy or materialize in reality. This type of paraphilias is part of the category diagnoses other specified paraphilic disorders.

Specifically, necrophilia is the sexual desire or preference for human or animal corpses. It is pathological behavior that constitutes a crime. This type of paraphilias is part of the category diagnoses other specified paraphilic disorders. In this article, you will find information about what the symptoms of death obsession.

Coercive paraphilic disorder refers to the sexual desire or pleasure that a person experiences when imagine or make a partner or individual have sex by force and without her or them wanting to do so. This fact constitutes a serious crime and sexual abuse. This type of paraphilias is part of the category diagnoses other specified paraphilic disorders.

Fetishism is a set of behaviors, fantasies and behaviors in which sexual desire derives solely from the use of inanimate objects or non-genital parts of the body. Some of the most common are podophilia, pleasure for the feet, and retifismo, pleasure for the shoes.

Everything that is done with the object and generates sexual pleasure is considered fetishism. It fits into this category, in the case of an object, stealing it and masturbating with it or simply seeing it.

If we talk about types of paraphilias, one of the best known is transvestism, that is, the sexual arousal, intense and recurring that some people feel by dressing or imagining dressed in another gender. Most do it while alone, but there are certain types of people who get more aroused when they show themselves like this in public.

Urophilia and coprophilia are the sexual desire to swallow or be wet and soiled with urine or feces respectively. In these types of cases, the simple act of touching, hearing or seeing someone urinate or excrete can be a source of sexual gratification. On the other hand, if the person is excited by the idea of ​​urinating or defecating his partner, we speak of salophilia.

Infantism is the sexual satisfaction a person experiences from being treated like a baby. This paraphilia carries a kind of representation that includes elements such as fetish, that is, diapers, bottles, pacifiers, even cribs or adaptations of places are used. This type of paraphilias are also part of thes other specified paraphilic disorders.

Asphyxiophilia is the sexual satisfaction that a person experiences when intentionally restricting her or her partner's breathing, causingsuffocation. Although it is a practice consented to by the couple, it is an extremely dangerous paraphilia, since it can generate accidental death due to hypoxia. This type of paraphilias are also part of thes other specified paraphilic disorders.

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