First of all, no posting religious comments about how stuff is wrong in this thread. Of course everyone is allowed to state their opinion, but Christians and other religious people who just post about premarital sex, same sex relationships and other deviations from the standardized common norm is wrong because their biblething says so, tends to ruin the healthy discussion. So please, if you have nothing else to say, don't bother saying it. I talked with Strop about getting this topic up and running, so... I don't think I'm not allowed to, though some of you youngsters may find it offensive. Please, if weird things about sex disturbs you, stop reading now. Kthnxbai.
Now, the actual topic of this thread is pretty wide. Heavy reading about what paraphilias are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia But to sum up (info taken from Wikipedia's article): * Exhibitionism: the recurrent urge or behavior to expose one's genitals to an unsuspecting person. (Can also be the recurrent urge or behavior to perform sexual acts in a public place, or in view of unsuspecting persons.) * Fetishism: the use of inanimate objects to gain sexual excitement. Partialism refers to fetishes specifically involving nonsexual parts of the body (for example, feet). * Frotteurism: the recurrent urges of behavior of touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person. * Pedophilia: a psychological disorder in which an adult experiences a sexual preference for prepubescent children, or has engaged in child sexual abuse. * Sexual Masochism: the recurrent urge or behavior of wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer for sexual pleasure. * Sexual Sadism: the recurrent urge or behavior involving acts in which the pain or humiliation of a person is sexually exciting. * Transvestic fetishism: arousal from "clothing associated with members of the opposite sex." * Voyeurism: the recurrent urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing or engaging in sexual activities, or may not be sexual in nature at all.
For anyone that do not "suffer" from a paraphilia, most of that can probably sound - grotesque... But many people in this world have one or more paraphilias.
Actually, just to annoy you all with a wall of text and ****s, here's the List of paraphilias as found here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paraphilias I think many of them are extremely gross, but most people have at least one of the listed. Personally, I have seven.
Some paraphilias have have more than one term to describe them, and some terms overlap with others. * Abasiophilia: love of (or sexual attraction to) people who are lame or crippled and/or who use leg braces or other orthopaedic appliances * Agalmatophilia: sexual attraction to statues or mannequins or immobility * Algolagnia: sexual pleasure from pain * Acrotomophilia: sexual attraction to amputees * Andromimetophilia: sexual attraction towards female-to-male transsexuals * Apotemnophilia: sexual arousal associated with being, becoming, or being perceived as an amputee * Asphyxiophilia: sexual arousal from self-strangulation * Autagonistophilia: sexual arousal from being on stage or on camera * Autassassinophilia: sexual arousal from staging one's own murder * Autoerotic asphyxiation: sexual arousal from self-induced asphyxiation to the point of near unconsciousness * Autogynephilia: a male's sexual arousal in response to the image of himself as female * Autonepiophilia: sexual arousal from impersonating and being treated like an infant * Autopedophilia: sexual arousal from the thought or image of one's self as a child * Bestiality: sexual attraction to animals * Bestiosexuality: sexual attraction to animals * Biastophilia: sexual arousal from assault and rape * Chremastistophilia: sexual arousal from being robbed or being held * Chronophilia: sexual attraction to a partner of a widely differing chronological age * Coprophilia: sexual attraction to (or pleasure from) feces * Cratophilia: sexual attraction to strength * Diaperism: sexual interest in wearing diapers * Erotic asphyxia: sexual attraction from asphyxia (also called "breath control play" or "strangulation", including autoerotic asphyxiation * Erotophonophilia: lust murder * Exhibitionism: the recurrent urge to or enacting of exposing one's genitals to unsuspecting, nonconsenting persons; also, sexual arousal by engaging in sexual behavior in view of third parties. * Fetishism: sexual interest in nonliving objects * Formicophilia: sexual attraction to smaller animals, insects, etc. crawling on parts of the body * Frotteurism: sexual arousal from the recurrent urge or behavior of touching or rubbing against a non-consenting person * Gerontophilia: sexual arousal from significantly older partners * Gynandromorphophilia: sexual attraction to women with penises, men cross-dressed as women, or male-to-female transsexuals * Gynemimetophilia sexual attraction towards male-to-female transsexuals * Hebephilia: sexual attraction to pubescent children * Homeovestism: sexual arousal by wearing the clothing emblematic of one's own sex * Hybristophilia: sexual arousal to people who have committed crimes, in particular cruel or outrageous crimes * Infantophilia: sexual attraction to children five years old or younger * Infanitilism: sexual pleasure from dressing, acting, or being treated as a baby * Kleptophilia: (or kleptolagnia) sexual arousal from stealing * Klismaphilia: sexual pleasure from enemas * Lactaphilia: sexual arousal from human milk * Lust murder: sexual arousal from committing (or trying to commit) murder * Mammaphilia: (also mammagynophilia, mastofact) sexual arousal from the breasts of a woman * Masochism: the recurrent urge or behavior of wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer * Menophilia: sexual arousal from menses or menstruating women * Morphophilia: sexual preference for individuals with a particular body shape and size * Mucophilia: sexual arousal from human mucus * Mysophilia: sexual attraction to soiled, dirty, foul or decaying materials * Narratophilia: sexual arousal in the use of dirty or obscene words to a partner * Nasophilia: sexual arousal from touching the nose of a person * Necrophilia: sexual attraction to corpses * Nepiophilia: sexual attraction to infants * Olfactophilia: sexual stimulus with smells or odors * Osmolagnia: sexual arousal from odors * Osphresiolagnia: sexual arousal dependent on smells or odors * Ozolagnia: sexual arousal dependent on smells or odors * Ondinism: (also undinism) sexual attraction to urine * Partialism: exaggerated sexual interest in a non-genital very specific body part * Peodeiktophilia: sexual arousal from exposing one's penis * Pedophilia: (British spelling: paedophilia) sexual attraction to prepubescent children * Pedovestism: sexual arousal from imitating children in appearance * Pictophilia: sexual attraction to pictorial pornography or erotic art * Podophilia: sexual attraction to human feet * Renifleurism: sexual arousal in response to the smell of urine * Sadism: deriving pleasure, or in some cases sexual arousal from giving pain * Salirophila: sexual arousal by soiling (only the appearance of) the object of one's desired partner * Scatophilia: sexual arousal from feces * Scoptophilia: (or scopophilia) sexual preference for watching others masturbating or having sex * Raptophilia: sexual preference for committing rape * Somnophilia: sexual arousal from sleeping or unconscious people * Sthenolagnia: sexual arousal from the demonstration of strength or muscles * Stigmatophilia: sexual interest in piercings, tattoos * Symphorophilia: sexual arousal from disasters * Telephone scatologia: being sexually aroused by making obscene phone calls to strangers * Telephonicophilia: being sexually aroused by making obscene phone calls to strangers * Transvestic fetishism: arousal from "clothing associated with members of the opposite sex." * Transvestophilia: sexual preference for a cross-dressered partner * Trichophilia: sexual arousal from hair * Troilism: (also spelled triolism) sexual interest in watching one's regular sexual partner having sex with a third party, usually unbeknownst to the third party * Urophagia: sexual attraction to consuming urine * Urophilia: sexual attraction to urine, including urinating in public, urinating on others, and being urinated on by others; * Vampirism: sexual arousal from drawing, sucking, or drinking blood * Vomerophilia: sexual attraction to vomit * Vorarephilia: sexual attraction to eating others or the idea of being eaten by others; usually in one piece * Voyeurism: sexual arousal through secretly watching others in intimate situations, such as disrobing, being naked, or having sex * Zoophilia: sexual attraction to animals * Zooerastia: sexual attraction to animals * Zooerasty: sexual attraction to animals * Zoosadism: sexual gratification derived from causing pain and suffering to animals
Fetishes and partialisms * Anesthesia fetishism * Balloon fetishism * Blood fetishism (also haematophilia) * Breast fetishism * Breast expansion fetishism * Crush fetish * Diaper fetishism * Doll fetish * Fat fetishism (also lipophilia) * Foot fetishism * Garment fetishism * Hand fetishism * Hypnofetishism * Impregnation fetish * Lipstick fetishism (straight and trans varieties) * Medical fetishism * Navel fetishism * Nose fetishism (also nasophilia) * Panty fetishism * Pregnancy fetishism * Racial fetishism * Robot fetishism * Shoe fetishism * Silk/Satin fetishism * Smoking fetishism (Capnolagnia) * Spandex fetishism * Tickling fetishism (also acarophilia) * Total enclosure fetishism * Transformation fetish * Wet and messy fetishism: sexual arousal by having substances deliberately and generously applied to the naked skin, or to the clothes people are wearing
Japanese terms Though these fetishes originated in Japan, they have recently gained popularity in other countries, particularly the Americas. * Nyotaimori: sexual arousal by eating sashimi or sushi from the body of a (usually naked) woman * Omorashi: sexual arousal to one's or a partner's feeling of having a full bladder * Tamakeri: sexual arousal from having a male kicked in the groin by a woman * Wakamezake: sexual arousal by drinking alcohol from a woman's body.
Technical terms for non-paraphilic sexual interests * Androphilia: Sexual interest in men * Analloerotic: Lacking in sexual interests towards others (but not lacking in sexual drive) * Ephebophilia: Sexual attraction towards individuals in mid- to late adolescence, typically ages 15-19 * Gynephilia: Sexual interest in women * Teleiophilia: Sexual interest in adults (as opposed to pedophilia, etc.)
AND THERE ARE SO MANY MORE! I think it's Rule 35 that states, if it exists, someone has a fetish for it.
Also, sorry about the ****s. It's that word for having intercourse with someone without their consent, you all know it.
Let the comments roll in! As with the Homosexuality thread, there is no particular direction for this topic to take. Just share your thoughts or something. Please keep comments on-topic and lighthearted. Flaming will not be tolerated.
Sorry for double posting... Just... Tentacle fetishism go! ... The thread needed visuals! It was the only not-so-obscene thing I could think of, and Wikipedia's list don't mention the tentacles.
Heh, the Holy Church of Sexual Deviance? I think there have been quite a few studies (read a whole ton, why are people so obsessed with sex?) about sexual preferences in the field of psychology. I guess...whatever gets you off (sorry, I make too many bad puns).
We perceive people to be obsessed about sex as a result of attempts to repress and manage. That's something I would be willing to claim is pretty simple.
Well, that is a pretty comprehensive list! I think there are a couple of take-home messages to prevent people from being completely overwhelmed:
* For whatever reason, you can be attracted to just about anything. Some are simply more common than others. Others are actually a lot more common than you would think but people just don't talk about them :P
* The attraction should be thought of as independent of a moral dimension. I'm not saying that a moral dimension doesn't exist but that it makes more sense to acknowledge that certain things happen before deciding what to do with them.
Several of the so-called paraphilias and fetishes on this list have a significant legal dimension, in fact some of the definitions, in terms of psychiatry, are inextricably connected to legal issues. For example, in many (or most) countries, irrespective of whether there is a moral 'wrong' involved (we can debate this later), certain aspects of bestiality and pedophilic activity are illegal, and the grounds for this vary. In the case of the latter, it is because it is generally accepted that to practice pedophilia would, pretty much by definition, involve the abuse of a minor due to the way that we perceive children in relation to the rights of an individual.
Nonetheless there will be people who will have this attraction, and if you can accept that, in some way or another, that "homosexuality is not a choice", you can think of this in the same manner. What it becomes then is a matter of how to manage such, whether you wish to repress it, or to accept it, or to modulate it. This will be harder in some cases than others- which is why we discuss such things as recidivism rates for groups of various criminal offenders. The dilemma remains as to how to most effectively reduce our negative outcomes in the face of balancing other considerations- the public sentiment, the rights of each and every individual etc.
Challenges to this exist in the form of stigma and the aforementioned moral judgments that discourage an honest and open approach. Because of this and the constant association with criminality, to the extent that the world of fantasy is also closed to many of these avenues, I believe that we are only making it harder for ourselves to effectively deal with real-world situations.
Finally it is one of my interests, as somebody oriented towards behavioral study, to work towards a more effective schema that would actually better reflect the diversity of our sexual canvas. I'm fairly critical of the way it stands right now, in terms of how it is compartmentalised as I believe it is fairly out of sorts with the way that people actually do function. But that would be a slow process.
Psychiatric practice is very clear on what a mental disorder is, when it comes to 'deviant behaviors' and 'alternate sexualities'. It goes like so:
A sexual disorder is a disorder of impaired function or where function is such to an extent that it inhibits social functioning and/or causes significant distress to the person or others.
Most of the terms listed by zophia, properly applied, in the context of making a 'diagnosis' for behavioral disorder would generally imply that a person is unable to sexually function without the relevant stimulus.
People tend not to know this so discussion of 'fetishes' in general social discourse tends to mean "oh, I kinda like that, do I have a fetish?" This doesn't really matter so much but does in the context of formal psychiatric evaulation.
@windshif: Morphophilia... Well, my best guess would be, that it can really be any shape/size of person. Everyone has a preference, the difference lies in the very strong attraction towards any of that build...
Look at Gynandromorphophilia in the list. It's related.
Also, I feel I should respond somehow to the post Strop made... But it was long, so I forgot what I wanted to say... >.>
But yeah. It's not mental disorders, though some of them may qualify as that... Not the actual fetishes, though. Sexual arousal from an object isn't a disorder, it's just a very weird function.
