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In a 2014 study, 26.3% of women and 27.8% of men acknowledged any fantasies about "having sex with a fetish or non-sexual object". A content analysis of the sample's favorite fantasies found that 14% of the male fantasies involved fetishism (including feet , nonsexual objects, and specific clothing), and 4.7% focused on a specific body part ...
Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical. The American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM), draws a distinction between paraphilias (which it describes as atypical sexual interests) and paraphilic disorders (which additionally require the experience of distress, impairment in functioning, and/or ...
Partialism is a sexual fetish with an exclusive focus on a specific part of the body other than genitals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Partialism is categorized as a fetishistic disorder in the DSM-5 of the American Psychiatric Association only if it causes significant psychosocial distress for the person or has detrimental effects on important areas of ...
Transvestic fetishism is a psychiatric diagnosis applied to people who are sexually aroused by the act of cross-dressing and experience significant distress or impairment – socially or occupationally – because of their behavior.
Sexual masochism disorder is the term employed by the current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. [1] It refers to the "recurrent and intense sexual arousal from the act of being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer, as manifested by fantasies, urges, or behaviors" (p. 694).
[2] [3] Other researchers have approached it as a form of identity disorder. [4] [5] [6] The most common interests are towards amputations, prosthesis, and crutches. [1] As a sexual fetish, attraction to disability is known as devotism, and those with the fetish are known as devotees. [1]
The formal diagnosis of Sexual Sadism Disorder would apply if the individual has acted on these urges with a non-consenting person or if the urges cause significant distress to the individual. Coercive sexual sadism disorder is the term used by the current version of the International Classification of Diseases ( ICD-11 ). [ 3 ]
Nymphomaniac and sex maniac were terms previously used for the condition in women and men, respectively. Hypersexuality may be a primary condition, or the symptom of other medical conditions or disorders such as Klüver–Bucy syndrome, bipolar disorder, brain injury and dementia.