Atypical Sexual Behavior

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Atypical Sexual Behavior

• Walking, perhaps crawling, on the wild side

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Paraphilias

• A nicer name
• A term used to describe uncommon types of sexual
  expression

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Whats Atypical?

• Even though these behaviors are unusual, many of
  us, at some point in our lives, may recognize
  some tiny urge in ourselves that falls off the
  straight and narrow

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Is this mostly a guy thing?

• Not necessarily
• Males are far more likely to be apprehended and
  prosecuted, but
• Is it because were just so much more complex?

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If you like youll probably enjoy .

• These behaviors tend to cluster, people usually
  cant stop at just one
• Some have four or more
• Inhibitions lowered?

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Noncoercive Paraphilias

• Many just involve I person, or another consenting
  adult
• Typically benign
• But certainly have the potential to pose distress
  for others

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Fetishism

• Obtaining sexual excitement primarily or
  exclusively from an inanimate object or a
  particular part of the body
• Not just aroused or attracted by lingerie, legs,
  knee caps, etc.
• Only when focused, to the exclusion of all else

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Fetishes - What?

• Often common objects black mesh stockings,
  shoes, boots, hair, leather, silk, latex, crushed
  wheat thins, etc
• Ballooners

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Fetishes Why?

• Somehow these items get inserted into a fantasy
  sequence ending in orgasm
• Classical Conditioning object (initially
  neutral) becomes a powerful conditioned stimulus
  after being consistently paired with the
  unconditioned stimulus of sex (masturbation)
  followed by the unconditioned response of orgasm
• Operant conditioning orgasm as a reinforcer

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Research

• Richman (1966)
• Developed fetishes with boots, even generalized
  to other footwear

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Autoerotic Asphyxia

• Enhancing sexual excitement and orgasm by
  pressure-induced oxygen deprivation
• Rare but life-threatening
• Almost exclusively male
• Pressure via chain, belt, rope noose
• Alone or in groups

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Why ?

• They arent talking
• Must enhance excitement and orgasm

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DANGER !

• Elaborate techniques for escape sometimes fail
• FBI estimates 1,000 deaths a year?!?

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Bizarre but true

• Klismaphilia obtaining sexual pleasure through
  receiving enemas
• Corophilia turned on by contact with feces
• Urophilia excited by contact with urine

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Coercive

• Some activities, by their very nature, are
  coercive or invasive
• These can easily have negative impacts on targets
• Often illegal
• Worse yet, can lead to more serious offenses

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Exhibitionism

• a/k/a indecent exposure baring your genitals
  to unwilling observers
• Almost always a male exposing himself to a young
  or mature female
• Often immediately followed by masturbation
  centering on victims shocked reaction
• Setting anywhere offering easy escape

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Who?

• Based mostly on arrests limited sample
• Males from 20-30
• Half married or divorced
• Often shy, insecure, troubles with intimacy
• Get along in society
• Unsatisfying sex lives

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Why?

• Attention
• Affirmation of masculinity
• Sexual sharing
• Revenge
• Some are disturbed, disabled, disoriented

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Ripples

• Usually thats as far as they go, but
• Often lasting effect on targets
• Small minority assault victims
• Some progress to more serious offenses
• But imprisonment for a first time offender?

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Frotteurism

• Fairly common
• Unwelcome spooning in public places
• Usually press genitals against woman
• Sometimes hands
• Often unnoticed
• Occasionally detected and upsetting

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More Frotteurism

• Can lead to arousal and orgasm
• Usually becomes part of masturbatory fantasy
• Similar profile to exhibitionists
• 21 of college men?!?

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Think Frotteurism is weird?

• Zoophilia sexual contact with animals
• We assume that they are unwilling
• Kinsey 8 of males!! (17 of farmboys)
• 4 of females!!!

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Preferences

• Tastes vary sheep, goats, donkeys, dogs, cats,
  ducks/geese

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Why What

• Usually just a transitory phase when human
  partners are unavailable
• TRUE Zoophiles actually prefer animals
• Very rare
• Usually a deep-seated psychological problem at
  the root
• Perhaps a distorted image of other sex