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paraphilia

A sex practice that becomes necessary for sexual arousal but is not approved by social norms. Some paraphilias are:

asphyxophilia — A person needs to be strangled up to the point of passing out in order to be sexually aroused. It is very dangerous. Hundreds of young people, mostly men, die of autoerotic asphyxiation every year.

biastophilia — A person needs to sexually attack a nonconsenting, surprised, terrified, and struggling stranger in order to be sexually aroused. This is a kind of rape, but most rapes are committed by men without biastophilia.

corporophilia — A person needs contact with feces in order to be sexually aroused.

exhibitionism — Sexual arousal becomes dependent on exposing the sex organs to those who will be surprised.

fetishism — A person needs the presence of certain objects, substances, or parts of the body in order to be sexual aroused.

frotteurism — A person needs to press or rub against an unknown person in a crowded public place in order to be sexually aroused.

kleptophilia — A person needs to steal in order to be sexually aroused.

masochism — A person needs sexual role-play or fantasy that includes receiving punishment, discipline, or humiliation in order to be sexually aroused.

necrophilia — A person needs the presence of a dead body in order to be sexually aroused.

pedophilia — An adult needs to have sexual contact or fantasies of sexual contact with a child in order to be sexually aroused.

pictophilia — A person needs to view pornographic pictures, movies, or videos — with or without a partner — in order to be sexually aroused.

sadism — A person needs to participate in sexual role-play or have a fantasy that includes giving punishment, discipline, or humiliation in order to be sexually aroused.

transvestophilia — A person needs to wear clothing, especially underwear, associated with the other gender in order to be sexually aroused.

urophilia — A person needs contact with urine in order to be sexually aroused.

voyeurism — A person needs to watch people getting undressed or having sex play and who are unaware that they are being watched in order to be sexually aroused.

zoophilia — A person needs sexual contact with an animal in order to be sexually aroused. Also called "bestiality. "

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