PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Not Otherwise Specified, Human Sexual Response Cycle, Sexual Arousal
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Chapter 14 : sexual and gender identity disorders. Transsexualism: the state of being a transsexual: therapies: Sex-reassignment surgery: an operation in which the existing genitalia are altered to make them more like those of the opposite sex: paraphilias: sexual attraction to unusual objects and sexual activities unusual in nature i. ii. Fetishism: reliance on an inanimate object for sexual arousal. Transvestic fetishism: the practice of dressing in the clothing of the opposite sex, for the purpose of sexual arousal iii. Pedophilia: the sexual disorder of a pedophile, one who has a paraphilia involving sexual desires and urges toward children. Incest: sexual relations between close relatives, most often between father and daughter, or between brother and sister. Child sexual abuse: sexual abuse of children that involves direct physical contact, such as pedophilia or incest iv. Exhibitionism marked preference for obtaining sexual gratification by exposing one"s genitals to an unwilling observer v.
