Paraphilic Disorders

DSM-V category: Primary category
MeSH category: Mental disorders

This is a group of diseases which feature both:

1. A sexual fetish (paraphilia).
2. Significant dysfunction. For example:
1. Shame, anxiety, guilt, low self-esteem.
2. Damage to interpersonal relationships.
3. Preoccupation with the fetish in everyday life.
4. Illegal or unethical behaviour.
5. Risk of exploitation, injury, or death.

 

Examples

• Dangerous sadism (sexual arousal from causing pain and humilation)
• Dangerous masochism (sexual arousal from receiving pain and humilation)
• Voyeurism (sexual arousal from spying)
• Necrophilia (sexual arousal from dead bodies)
• Hybristophilia (sexual arousal from illegal or unethical behaviour)
• Asphyxiophilia (sexual arousal from asphyxiation)
• Biastophilia (sexual arousal from rape)
• Chremastistophilia (sexual arousal from being a victim of robbery, fraud, unfair trading etc.)
• Paedophilia (sexual arousal from sexually immature people, children or infants)
• Autassassinophilia (sexual arousal from the idea of being killed or at high-risk)
• Pyrophilia (sexual arousal from fires)
• Erotophonophilia / lust murder (sexual arousal from murder)