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List of Paraphilias
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Emotional Problems

Anger
A paraphilia is a sexual problems where the
Anxiety
sexual arousal is in response to objects or stimuli
not associated with normal sexual behavior Depression
patterns and that may interfere with the
establishment of normal sexual relationships. Frustration

Grief
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
List of Paraphilias Guilt

Lack of Confidence
The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Self-Esteem
prevailing resource for diagnostic criteria of
paraphilias, describes the essential feature of Stress
paraphilias as recurrent, intense, sexual urges and
sexually arousing fantasies generally involving Eating Disorders
nonhuman objects, the suffering or humiliation of
oneself or partner, or children or other non Anorexia
consenting persons. The DSM-IV-TR describes the
more commonly observed paraphilias and makes Bulimia
reference to several other examples. People who
experience one paraphilia may also experience Binge Eating
other paraphilias. Commonly, people who manifest
paraphilias also exhibit personality disorders, drug Eating and Weight
abuse, alcohol abuse, and other substance abuse
Emotional Eating
problems, or affective disorders.
Excess Weight
The DSM-IV-TR lists the following paraphilias:
Weight Control
Exhibitionism: the recurrent urge or behavior to
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Relationships
Fetishism: the use of non-sexual or nonliving
objects or part of a person's body to gain sexual Co-dependency
excitement. Partialism refers to fetishes
Loneliness
specifically involving non-sexual parts of the body.
Loved Ones
Frotteurism: the recurrent urges or behavior of
touching or rubbing against a non-consenting Rejection
person.
Separation / Divorce
Masochism: the recurrent urge or behavior of
wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or Addictions
otherwise made to suffer.
Drug and Alcohol
Sadism: the recurrent urge or behavior involving
acts in which the pain or humiliation of the victim is Food
sexually exciting.
Gambling
Voyeurism: the recurrent urge or behavior to
observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, Internet
disrobing or engaging in sexual activities, or may
not be sexual in nature at all. Sex / Pornography

Spending / Shopping
Transvestite fetishism: a sexual attraction towards
the clothing of the opposite gender. Work

Chronophilias such as Infantophilia: the sexual

Behavioral Problems
attraction to infants; Pedophilia: the sexual
attraction to prepubescent children; Gerontophilia:
the sexual attraction to the elderly; and sadism: ADD
the recurrent urge or behavior involving acts in
ADHD
which the pain or humiliation of the victim is
sexually exciting. Adjustment Disorder

Other paraphilias: this is a grouping of rarer Bipolar

paraphilias including such problems as telephone
scatalogia (obscene phone calls), necrophilia Borderline
(corpses), partualism (exclusive focus on one part
of the body), zoophilia (animals), coprophilia Conduct Disorders
(feces), klismaphilia (enemas), urophilia (urine).
Explosive Disorder
Special Note: Homosexuality (gay and lesbianism) Hypochondria
was previously listed as a paraphilia in the DSM-I
and DSM-II, but this was declassified from both Kleptomania
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 DSM-III and DSM-IV, consistent with the change of Mania
attitude among psychiatrists and psychologists.
Homosexuality is no longer considered a Multiple Personality
paraphilia.
Obsessive/Compulsive

List of Paraphilias PTSD

The following list represents combinations of greek Schizophrenia

words, but does not necessarily represent real
Sleep Disorders
paraphilias. Some of the sexual interests are well-
known such as pedophilia (sexual attraction to
children) and sadism and masochism. Other items Phobias and Fears
on this list are rare, if they exist at all, and are not
documented in any reliable source. Fears and Phobias

Abasiophilia: love of (or sexual attraction to) Acrophobia

people who use leg braces or other orthopaedic
appliances Agoraphobia
Acousticophilia: sexual arousal from certain
Claustrophobia
sounds
Acrotomophilia: love of (or sexual attraction to) Monophobia
amputees
Agalmatophilia: sexual attraction to statues or Panic Attacks
mannequins or immobility
Algolagnia: sexual pleasure from pain Phobias
Amaurophilia: sexual arousal by a partner whom
one is unable to see due to artificial means, such Social Phobia
as being blindfolded or having sex in total
Performance Anxiety
darkness. (See: sensory deprivation)
Andromimetophilia: love of women dressed as List Of Phobias
men
Apodysophilia: desire to undress, see also nudism
Sexual Concerns
Apotemnophilia: desire to have (or sexual arousal
from having) a healthy appendage (limb, digit, or
Sexual Concerns (M)
male genitals) amputated
Aquaphilia: arousal from water and/or in watery Sexual Concerns (F)
environments, including bathtubs or swimming
pools Bisexuality
Aretifism: sexual attraction to people who are
without footwear, in contrast to retifism Exhibitionism
Asphyxiophilia: sexual attraction to asphyxia; also
called breath control play; including autoerotic Fetishism
asphyxiation; see medical warnings
Frotteurism
Autogynephilia: love of oneself as a woman (also
see Blanchard, Bailey, and Lawrence theory for
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Biastophilia: sexual pleasure from committing rape Gender Identity
Celebriphilia: pathological desire to have sex with Issues
a celebrity.
Coprophilia: sexual attraction to (or pleasure from) Sadomasochism
feces
Sexual Orientation
Crush fetish: sexual arousal from seeing small
creatures being crushed by members of the Voyeurism
opposite sex, or being crushed oneself
Dacryphilia: sexual pleasure in eliciting tears from List of Paraphilias
others or oneself
Dendrophilia: sexual attraction to trees and other Helpful Information
large plants, popularized by the movie "Superstar"
with Molly Shannon
Aging
Diaper fetishism: sexual arousal from diapers
Emetophilia (a.k.a. vomerophilia): sexual attraction Communication Skills
to vomit
Ephebophilia (a.k.a. hebephilia): sexual attraction Non-Verbal Comm...
towards adolescents
Eproctophilia: sexual attraction to flatulence Personal Growth
Exhibitionism: sexual arousal through sexual
behavior in view of third parties (also includes the Skill Enhancement
recurrent urge or behavior to expose one's
genitals to an unsuspecting person, known as Adoption / Infertility
indecent exposure)
Faunoiphilia: sexual arousal from watching Adoption
animals mate
Fetishism: is the use of non-sexual or nonliving For Adoptees
objects or part of a person's body to gain sexual
excitement. Examples include: For Adopting Persons
Balloon fetishism -- breast fetishism -- foot For Birth Parents
fetishism (podophilia) -- fur fetishism -- leather
fetishism -- lipstick fetishism -- medical fetishism -- Infertility
panty fetishism -- robot fetishism -- rubber
fetishism -- shoe fetishism -- smoking fetishism --
spandex fetishism -- dental braces fetishism -- Help is Available
transvestic fetishism (see below)
Frotteurism: sexual arousal from the recurrent urge Who I Can Help
or behavior of touching or rubbing against a
nonconsenting person How I Can Help
Galactophilia: sexual attraction to human milk or
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lactating women (incorrect term)
Gerontophilia: sexual attraction towards the elderly Fees
Haematophilia: sexual attraction involving blood
(either on a sex partner/attractive person or the About Dr Berger
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genetic disorder of the blood) What Is a
Harpaxophilia: sexual arousal from being the
victim of a robbery or burglary Psychologist
Hematolagnia: sexual attraction to blood
Hybristophilia: sexual arousal to people who have Psychiatrist
committed crimes, in particular cruel or
Clinical Psychologist
outrageous crimes
Infantilism: sexual pleasure from dressing, acting, Educational Psych...
or being treated as a baby
Katoptronophilia: sexual arousal from having sex Forensic Psychologist
in front of mirrors.
Klismaphilia: sexual pleasure from enemas School Psychologist
Lust murder: sexual arousal through committing
murder Social Worker
Macrophilia: sexual attraction to larger people and
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large things (including larger body organs such as
breasts and genitalia) Personal Coach
Maiesiophilia: sexual attraction to childbirth or
pregnant women Executive Coach
Masochism: is the recurrent urge or behavior of
wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or Therapist
otherwise made to suffer
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Microphilia: sexual attraction to smaller people
and things of smaller size Pastoral Counselor
Mysophilia: sexual attraction to soiled, dirty, foul or
decaying material DSM-IV
Necrophilia: sexual attraction to corpses
Necrozoophilia: sexual attraction to the corpses or Types of Treatment
killings of animals (also known as necrobestiality)
Nepiophilia: the same as infantophilia sexual Behavioral Therapy
attraction to children between the age of 0 - 3 yrs.
Pedophilia: sexual attraction to prepubescent Biofeedback
children (British spelling: paedophilia)
Phalloorchoalgolagnia: sexual arousal by the Cognitive Behavioral
experiencing of painful stimuli being administered
Desensitization
to the male genitals.
Pictophilia: sexual attraction to pictorial Electroconvulsive
pornography/erotic art
Plushophilia: sexual attraction to stuffed toys or Gestalt Therapy
people in animal costume, such as theme park
characters Hypnotherapy
Pyrophilia: sexual arousal through watching,
setting, hearing/talking/fantasizing about fire Neurolinguistic
Retifism: sexual arousal from shoes Psychoanalysis
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Schediaphilia (aka Toonophilia): love (or sexual Psychotherapy
arousal) to cartoon characters/situations
Sitophilia: sexual arousal from food Rational Emotive
Somnophilia: sexual arousal from sleeping or
unconscious people Reality Therapy
Spectrophilia: sexual attraction to ghosts
Telephone scatologia: being sexually aroused by Family Therapy
making obscene telephone calls
Group Therapy
Teratophilia: sexual attraction to deformed or
monstrous people
Transformation fetish: sexual arousal from Tests
depictions of transformations of people into
objects or other beings Intelligence (IQ)
Transvestic fetishism: is a sexual attraction
Myers-Briggs
towards the clothing of the opposite gender (also
known as transvestitism) MMPI
Trichophilia: love (or sexual arousal) from hair
Urolagnia: sexual attraction to urine Neuropsych
Vorarephilia: sexual attraction to being eaten by,
and/or eating, another person or creature Rorschach (inkblot)
Voyeurism: sexual arousal through watching
others having sex (also includes the recurrent Famous Psychologists
urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting
person who is naked, disrobing or engaging in Allport, Gordon
sexual activities, see peeping tom)
Xenophilia: sexual attraction to foreigners (in Beck, Aaron
science fiction, can also mean sexual attraction to
aliens) Binet, Alfred
Zoophilia: emotional or sexual attraction to animals
Zoosadism: the sexual enjoyment of causing pain Chomsky, Noam
and suffering to animals
Ellis, Albert
Note: Sadism and masochism are often grouped
together, under sadomasochism, or (as a lifestyle Erikson, Erik
interest) BDSM. See also " bondage and
discipline" and algolagnia. Erickson, Milton

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