Essay on Sexual Masochism

In this time period, there are many different disorders and illnesses that go unnoticed, and unknown. Society creates stereotypes about illnesses such as obsessive compulsive disorder, clinical Depression, and many other mental afflictions. Another that seems to remain controversial and misunderstood is sexual compulsive behaviors. Many see it as an excuse to act a certain way, or think a certain way; in reality it is a serious mental disorder that can cause devastating effects on the people that are consumed by them and the people who are around them. Something that is however, known about sexual compulsive behaviors is that there are certain things that can emotionally damage a person and cause them to have these behaviors. The three

The paraphilia that I choose to dicuss is transvestic fetishism which has two parts for the diagnosis they are a) over a period of at least 6 months, in a heterosexual male, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving cross-dressing and b) the fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. There mey be an increased risk for sexual acting out for example, subjects have accidentally died when they were engaged in autoerotic asphyxia, which is a high risk paraphilic behavior based on self-induced cerebral anoxia by hanging or suffocation during masturbation. In one study results indicated that 36 men and 5 women ever having experienced sexual arousal from actual cross-dressing behavior, results suggest that sexual arousal to cross-dressing is rare, but could be associated with potentially criminal paraphilic sexual behavior such as voyeuristic and exhibitionistic acts, and there was a non-significant trend suggesting that childhood sexual victimization was related to transvestic fetishism.

Pedophilia is characterized as a sexual fondness for and activity with children. Pedophilia is a form of paraphilia (deviant sexual behavior). Pedophiles partake in acts that include fondling with a child's genitals, having sexual intercourse with and exploitation of children through prostitution or pornographic materials (Pedophilia, 2008). According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in order to be diagnosed as a pedophile one must experience intense sexual arousal from prepubescent children over a period of six months. In addition to the sexual arousal the person must have acted on the urges and as a result experience extreme distress or impairment in important areas of functioning

Baumeister claims that these fantasies can range from wanting to be blindfolded during intercourse to wanting to be bound and gagged or handcuffed.

Paraphilia's has been recorded throughout human history and societies have has different beliefs on them that carry on until today. Some can be harmless and only directly affect a person and their consenting partner, while others violate personal rights and even laws. Paraphilia’s are defined as " a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities." There are several different types of paraphilia’s, some of those include, necrophilia, frotteurism, sadomasochism, and zoophilia. Necrophilia is when a person engages in sexual intercourse with a corpse, frotteurism is when a man rubs

Sexuality is very diverse, in some instances normality is based on the cultural context of the individual's society. In "The other side of desire" by Daniel Bergner, the author goes in depth into the lives of four individual's whose lust and longing have led them far down the realms of desire. The current paper addresses the four individual's Jacob, the Baroness, Roy, and Ron each exhibits a paraphilia that may or may not meet the full criteria in the DSM-5. Furthermore, each's specific paraphilia is conceptualized and explained in depth. Also, countertransferential issues anticipated before working with these individual's is analyzed and clarified. Also, the apprehension of sexual arousal and sexual behaviors is conceptualized into normality

(Frances, A., & First, M.B., 2011) While Sexual Masochism can cause distress and is often viewed as immoral it is rarely illegal and it there is a good likelihood that it does not signify an underlying psychopathology. Therefore it seems unjust to any individual that willingly offers insight into their sexual behaviors could face legal repercussions if the behavior is performed in a safe adult-adult

The issue that will be addressed in this paper is the controversial debate regarding the underlying nature of problematic sexual behavior and if major addictive processes can best understand these behaviors. The primary focus for both sides of this debate is the conceptualization of sexual addiction and its diagnostic criteria. Research pertaining sexual addiction is very limited and professionals in the psychiatric field have expressed many different opinions on this concept. Sexologists most commonly do not believe in sex addiction and view the term as conservative and have dismissed it as a sex-negative paradigm. However, there are many psychologists that do believe in the concept of sex addiction and view it as a disorder or cause for

Sex is for pleasure and for fun. We all have our kinky fantasies that we may or may not seek out. Sadism and masochism can arguably be considered something that is just for fun and a way of pleasing themselves but it is not what normally pleases the majority of people. It is a form of sexual arousal by being punished or punishing another person in ways that cause pain, suffering, and humiliation. Sadomasochism is on the list of paraphilia’s in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Everyone have something that turns them on or sexual desires they will like to be filled. However, when does it becomes abnormal behavior or illegal? Do some people go too far with trying to become sexual satisfied? I learned that paraphilia are atypical and there are several different types. Paraphilia are behaviors such as; flashers or fetishes. They gain sexual gratification form a non-human objects or body parts. For example, flashers often masturbates to the idea of flashing a person or while flashing a person. In addition, a person with a fetish seek arousal though the smell of a person clothes, underwear, or feet. The fetish turns them on to their partners or a mate they are seeking. I met a guy who had a feet fetish at a local

Paraphilia is known as a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities. Brannon defines Paraphilic Disorder as any intense and persistent sexual interest other than sexual interest in genital stimulation or preparatory fondling with phenotypically normal, physically mature, consenting human partners. (2013) Although many types of Paraphilias have been identified, DSM-5 has categorized the disorder into eight specific types: Voyeuristic disorder, Exhibitionistic disorder, Frotteuristic disorder, Sexual masochism disorder, Sexual sadism disorder, Pedophilic disorder, Fetishistic disorder, Transvestic disorder. (2013)

A paraphilia is known as a medical category which medical doctors created in the 1920s to describe abnormal sexual arousal to individuals, objects, or situations that are not considered normal or typical behavior in a community and causes personal distress or serious problems. Quinsey (2011) noted that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders includes paraphilias as mental disorders. He stated that this is because they are known to include a behavioral or psychological dysfunction which can create significant distress or disability. He explains a primary feature in most paraphilias is that the sexual behaviors most often involve a person who did not consent to the specific behavior. This is especially true in exhibitionism, frotteurism, and voyeurism. According to Kafka and Hennen (2002), The most common types of paraphilias are exhibitionism (exposing ones genitals to an unexpected person or performing sexual acts that can be watched by others) voyeurism (urges to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing, or engaging in sexual activates, or in activates usually considered to be a private nature), pedophilia (sexual preference for prepubescent children or engaging in child sexual abuse), sexual masochism (wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer for sexual pleasure) sadism (in which the pain or humiliation of a person is sexually exciting), fetishism (use of inanimate objects to gain sexual excitement), transvestic

Although the disorder is categorized into many different types of specific paraphilia, the characteristics of the illness are often very similar. At first, the disorder may seem like a regular fetish or a sexual fantasy of an individual. However, if an individual is going through guilt, distress, depression, or any sense of immorality from his/her particular interest, the signs of the Paraphilic disorder becomes more explicit. As the individual relieves himself/herself from engaging in paraphilic behaviors, he/she becomes addicted to the cycle. Thus, being diagnosed with Paraphilic disorder. Sometimes, paraphilic subjects may deny that they have paraphilic symptoms or behaviors. But such motivation to deny engaging in paraphilic behavior is

Sex illustrates as, “either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures.” (Merriam-Webster). Sex plays an essential role in human behavior, for illustration, it can lower blood pressure, relieves stress and it could help you sleep better, but there is a corruptive side to this action. Paraphilia is defining as “a psychosexual disorder in which sexual gratification is obtained through practices or fantasies involving a bizarre, deviant, or highly unusual source of sexual arousal such as an animal or an object.” Merriam-Webster) Such as, necrophilia, being attracted to corpses, acrotomophilia being

BDSM is a taboo topic for most and often times the people who practice it are persecuted. When most people think of submissives or dominants within BDSM, they believe that the practitioners are in some way mentally disturbed. However, there is research that has found evidence which contradicts this thought. One study used scientific scales to measure how much of a specific set of traits each role appeared to contain and whether this was abnormal in comparison to normative data. The other study interviewed several practitioners from both roles on what traits they thought suited them for their own roles and which ones suited those of the opposite role. I am hoping to understand why people feel the need to submit to or dominate others and I also