Paraphilia
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Illustration: True portrait of Monsieur Ubu by Alfred Jarry
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Paraphilia (in Greek para παρά = besides and -philia φιλία = friendship)—in psychology and sexology, is a term that describes a family of persistent, intense fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving sexual arousal to nonhuman objects, pain or humiliation experienced by oneself or one's partner, or children or other nonconsenting individuals. Paraphilias may interfere with the capacity for reciprocal affectionate sexual activity. Paraphilia is also used to imply non-mainstream sexual practices without necessarily implying dysfunction or deviance. Also, it may describe sexual feelings toward otherwise non-sexual objects.
No consensus has been found for any precise border between unusual sexual interests and paraphilic ones.
See also
- Courtship disorder
- Developmental psychology
- Dorian Gray syndrome
- Erotic target location error
- Human development
- Human sexuality
- Labeling theory
- Linguistic relativity
- List of paraphilias
- Lovemap
- Perversion
- Psychosexual development
- Richard von Krafft-Ebing for history of classifying sexual object choice as a disease
- Sex and the law
- -phil- (list of philias)
- Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) by Richard von Krafft-Ebing
