FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Orgasm, Dsm-5, Libido

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Cynthia Clark

Document Summary

Unit 11: sexual variation chapter 15: define common paraphilias including fetishism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, masochism, sadism, frotteurism, zoophilia, and necrophilia, as well as the requirements for a psychiatric diagnosis. A diagnostic category used by the american psychiatric association to describe an atypical pattern of sexual arousal or behaviour that becomes problematic in the eyes of the individual or of society. Urges are recurrent and are either acted on or are distressing to the individual who experiences them. Clinicians consider paraphilias to be mental disorders. Milder forms of these behaviours may be practiced by individuals and not considered harmful. Involve sexual arousal in response to unusual stimuli such as children or other non-consenting individuals, or pain or humiliation. Psychiatric diagnosis requires that the person act on the urges in socially unacceptable or harmful ways or be distinctly distressed by them. New concept proposed: sexual-interest disorder (sid) with key component distress or dysfunction.