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Ego-dystonic sexual orientation is a highly controversial mental health diagnosis that was included in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) from 1980 to 1987 (under the name ego-dystonic homosexuality) and in the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) from 1990 to 2019.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Pattern of romantic or sexual attraction "Sexual preference" redirects here. For the book, see Sexual Preference (book). Sexual orientation Sexual orientations Asexual Bisexual Heterosexual Homosexual Related terms Allosexuality Androphilia and gynephilia Bi-curious Gray asexuality ...
Acceptance of asexuality as a sexual orientation and field of scientific research is still relatively new, [2] [14] as a growing body of research from both sociological and psychological perspectives has begun to develop. [14] While some researchers assert that asexuality is a sexual orientation, other researchers disagree.
A straight couple. Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender.As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to people of the opposite sex.
After extensive organizing by gay rights activists during the gay liberation of the 1960s and 1970s, the seventh printing of the DSM-II in 1974 renamed the code "homosexuality" as "sexual orientation disturbance", and added descriptive text that noted that homosexuality "by itself does not constitute a psychiatric disorder" and that the renamed ...
A disorder of anxiety or depression related to an uncertainty about one's gender identity or sexual orientation has been classified as sexual maturation disorder by the World Health Organization in the ICD-10, under "Psychological and behavioural disorders associated with sexual development and orientation". [25] Sexual orientation by itself is ...
Sexual relationship disorder, along with ego-dystonic sexual orientation and sexual maturation disorder, was introduced to the ICD in 1990, replacing the ICD-9 diagnosis of homosexuality. [3] The following note was applied to the entirety of part F66, the section in which these three diagnoses appeared: "Sexual orientation by itself is not to ...
Demisexuality is sexual orientation in which individual does not experience primary sexual attraction [3] [4] – type of attraction that is based on immediately observable characteristics such as appearance or smell, and is experienced immediately after first encounter. [1]