This blog can be stated as Adam your nick name is Paraphilia.
Lately I came across in one of my Abnormal Psychology class, the topic of that day is paraphilia. I was told by my lecturer that most case of paraphilia are men. And it can be quite sick to believe that we men do it.
The word is used differently by different groups. As used in psychology or sexology, it is simply a neutral umbrella term used to cover a wide variety of atypical sexual interests.
Clinical definition
A paraphilic interest is not normally considered clinically important by clinicians unless it is also causing suffering of some kind, or strongly inhibiting a "normal" sex life (according to the subjective standards of the culture and times).
Lay-public view
Paraphilia is sometimes used by laypeople in a more judgmental or prejudicial sense, to categorize sexual desires or activities lying well outside the societal norm. Many sexual activities now considered harmless or even beneficial by many (such as masturbation) have often been considered perversions or psychosexual disorders in various societies, and how to regard these behaviors has been, and continues at times to be, a controversial matter. (For a contrasting view see: Wisdom of repugnance)
Usage of the term in English
The term "paraphilia" is rarely used in general English, with references to the actual interest concretely being more common. Some see the term as helping to aid objectivity when discussing taboo behaviors or those meeting public disapproval, but which may not in fact be a problem. Some have even interpreted the term pejoratively, seeing paraphilias as "rare conditions or serious disorders" that should either be criminalized or require serious treatment.
Clinical warnings
It is worth noting typical clinical warnings given against improper assumptions about paraphilias:
· "Paraphilias are … sexual fantasies urges and behaviors that are considered deviant with respect to cultural norms…"
· "Although several of these disorders can be associated with aggression or harm, others are neither inherently violent nor aggressive"
· "The boundary for social as well as sexual deviance is largely determined by cultural and historical context. As such, sexual orientations once considered paraphilias (e.g., homosexuality) are now regarded as variants of normal sexuality; so too, sexual behaviors currently considered normal (e.g., masturbation) were once culturally proscribed"
(Source: Psychiatric Times)
Clinically recognized paraphilias
Clinical literature discusses eight major paraphilias individually, and according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the activity must be the sole means of sexual gratification for a period of six (6) months, and cause "marked distress or interpersonal difficulty" to be considered such. In the clinical sense, many professionals and lay people prefer the term "disorders of sexual preference".
Note that their listing in DSM is mostly because, either due to widespread commonality or the nature of any psychological distress, standardized clinical assessment methods (as opposed to general guidance) is considered valuable for these.
They are:
Exhibitionism: the recurrent urge or behavior to expose one’s genitals to an unsuspecting person.
Fetishism: the use of non-sexual or nonliving objects or part of a person’s body to gain sexual excitement.
Partialism refers to fetishes specifically involving nonsexual parts of the body.
Frotteurism: the recurrent urges or behavior of touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person.
Masochism: the recurrent urge or behavior of wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer.
Pedophilia: the sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
Sadism: the recurrent urge or behavior involving acts in which the pain or humiliation of the victim is sexually exciting.
Transvestic fetishism: a sexual attraction towards the clothing of the opposite gender.
Voyeurism: the recurrent urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing or engaging in sexual activities. Other paraphilias are grouped together under "Other paraphilias not otherwise specified."
The paraphilias listed below may carry a condition of illegality in some areas if acted out (though they may usually be legally role-played between consenting partners).
- pedophilia: sexual attraction to prepubescent children
- ephebophilia: sexual attraction to adolescents (ie, postpubescent youth, such as teenagers)
- frotteurism: sexual arousal through rubbing one’s self against a non-consenting stranger in public
- exhibitionism and voyeurism, if deliberate and non-consensual
- telephone scatologia: being sexually aroused by making obscene telephone calls
- zoophilia: emotional or sexual attraction to animals
- biastophilia: sexual pleasure from committing rape
- lust murder: sexual arousal through committing murder
- necrophilia: sexual attraction to corpses
- necrozoophilia: sexual attraction to the corpses or killings of animals (also known as necrobestiality)
- zoosadism: the sexual enjoyment of causing pain and suffering to animals. (by Wikipedia)
One of those above I recomended Necrophilia.
Cause and prevalance
Virtually no research has been conducted regarding the prevalance of necrophilic attraction among humans. Klaf and Brown[3] (1958) commented that, although rarely described, necrophilic fantasies may occur more often than is generally supposed.
Rosman and Resnick[4] (1989) theorized that either of the following situations could be antecedents to necrophilia (pp. 161):
- The necrophile develops poor self-esteem, perhaps due in part to a significant loss;
- (a) He (usually male) is very fearful of rejection by women and he desires a sexual object who is incapable of rejecting him; and/or
- (b) He is fearful of the dead, and transforms his fear of the dead—by means of reaction formation—into a desire for the dead.
- He develops an exciting fantasy of sex with a corpse, sometimes after exposure to a corpse.
The authors also reported that, of their sample of ‘necrophiliacs,’ 68% were motivated by a desire for an unresisting and unrejecting partner; 21% by a want for reunion with a lost partner; 15% by sexual attraction to corpses; 15% by a desire for comfort or to overcome feelings of isolation; and 12% by a desire to remedy low self-esteem by expressing power over a corpse (pp. 159).
Notable necrophiles
Carl Tanzler
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Carl Tanzler was a radiologist in Key West, Florida who developed a morbid obsession for Elena Milagro Hoyos (1910-1931). She was one of his patients, and she died from tuberculosis in 1931. With her parents’ permission, Tanzler had an above ground mausoleum built for her, so she wouldn’t decompose underground. He visited the tomb almost every night, but in 1933, his obsession apparently overcame him, as he took Hoyos’ corpse home with him and kept it in his bed. He restored her body as best he could and kept a full wardrobe to dress her. As her body decomposed, he replaced the skin with wax and plaster of paris, and bought copius amounts of perfume, often several times a month. Tanzler also allegedly inserted a vaginal tube into Hoyos’ corpse for intercourse. In 1940, one of Hoyos’s surviving sisters became suspicious due to omnipresent rumors of Tanzler’s necrophilia, and eventually confronted Tanzler at his home. She entered Tanzler’s house and found Elena’s corpse lying in his bed in an elegant dress, almost fully decomposed. Tanzler was later arrested and charged with "wantonly and maliciously destroying a grave and removing a body without authorization," but he was ultimately released, as the statute of limitations on the crime had expired.
Serial killers
Necrophilia has also been a motive for some serial killers, including murderers Ed Gein, Richard Chase, Winston Moseley, John Reginald Halliday Christie, Bruno Lüdke, Jerry Brudos, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dahmer, who ate his victims after killing them; the technical term for this particular variant activity is necrophagia. Several other murderers have described drawing sexual excitement from killing, as well, such as Karla Faye Tucker, who claimed to have an orgasm with each swing of the axe she used to kill Jerry Lynn Dean. The guilty-plea testimony provided by the recently captured (2005) serial killer Dennis Rader provided a rare public glimpse into the workings of such a controlling mind.
Among animals
Necrophilia is not unknown in animals, with a number of confirmed observations. Kees Moeliker made one of these observations while he was sitting in his office at the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, when he heard the distinctive thud of a bird hitting the glass facade of the building. Upon inspection, he discovered a drake mallard lying dead about two meters from the building. Next to the downed bird there was a second drake mallard standing close by. As he observed the odd couple, the living drake picked at the corpse of the dead one for a few minutes and then mounted the corpse and began copulating with it. The act of necrophilia lasted for about 75 minutes, in which time, according to Moeliker, the living drake took two short breaks before resuming with copulating behavior. Moeliker surmised that at the time of the collision with the window the two mallards were engaged in a common motif in duck behavior which is called rape flight. "When one died the other one just went for it and didn’t get any negative feedback — well, didn’t get any feedback," according to Moeliker. This is the first recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
(almost all the extract article are from Widipedia)
