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Sexual Abnormalities
• As to the Choice of Sexual Partner
1. Heterosexual – Sexual Desire towards the opposite sex.
2. Homosexual – Sexual Desire towards the same sex.
A. Kinds of Homosexuals
1. Overt – Persons who are conscious of their homosexual
cravings, and who make no attempts to disguise their
intention.
2. Latent – Persons who may or may not be aware of the
tendency in that direction but are inclined to repress
the urge to give way to their homosexual yearning.
3. Infantosexual – Sexual desire towards an immature
person.
a. Pedophilia – A form of sexual perversion wherein a
person has the compulsive desire to have sexual
intercourse with a child of either sex.
Pedophilia
A Pedophile may be:
2. Love bites
b. Masochism (Passive algolagnia) – the pain and humiliation
from the opposite sex in the primary factor for sexual
gratification.
3. Fetishism
Kinds of Fetishes:
a. Anatomic
b. Clothing
c. Necrophilic
d. Odor
e. Pygmalionism
f. Mannikinism
g. Narcissism
h. Negative fetish
i. Saboteur fetish
j. Incendiarism
k. Vampirism
As to the Part of the Body:
1. Sodomy
2. Uranism
3. Frottage
4. Partialism
As to Visual Stimulus:
1. Voyeurism – A form of sexual perversion characterized by a
compulsion peep to see persons undress or perform personal
activities. The offender is sometimes called “Peeping Tom”.
2. Mixoscopia (Scoptophilia) – A perversion wherein sexual
pleasure is attained by watching couple couple undress or during
their sex intimacies.
As to Number:
1. Troilism (Menage a trois’) – A form of sexual perversion in
which three persons are participating in the sexual orgies.
2. Pluralism – A form of sexual deviation in which group of
persons participate in the sexual orgies.
Other Sexual Deviates:
1. Coprolalia – A form of sexual deviation characterized by the
need to use obscene language to obtain sexual gratification.
2. Don Juanism – The term applied by psychiatrists to describe a
form of sexual deviation characterized by promiscuity and
making seduction of many women as a part of his career.
3. Indecent exprosure (Exhibiotionism)
This is the willful exposure in public places of one’s genital organ
in the presence of other persons, usually of the opposite sex.
Sexual Reversal:
1. Transvestism – A form of deviation wherein a male individual
derives pleasure from wearing the female apparel.
2. Transexualism
• There is a dominant desire in some persons to identify
themselves with the opposite sex as completely as possible
and to discard forever their anatomical sex.
3. Intersexuality
• A genetic defect wherein an individual show intermingling, in
varying degrees, of the characteristics of both sexes including
physical form, reproductive organs, and sexual behavior.