PSYCHOSEXUAL

DISORDERS
(PARAPHILIAS)
Prepared by: ASTLEY MEI DELA CRUZ and KRISTIAN DAVE DIVA of BSN III
 Necrophilia
also known as necrophilism, necrolagnia,
necrocoitus, necrochlesis,
and thanatophilia, is a sexual attraction or
sexual act involving corpses. It is classified
as a paraphilia by the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American
Psychiatric Association.
Rosman and Resnick (1989) reviewed information from 34
cases of necrophilia describing the individuals' motivations for
their behaviors: these individuals reported the desire to possess
a non-resisting and non-rejecting partner (68%), reunions with a
romantic partner (21%), sexual attraction to corpses (15%),
comfort or overcoming feelings of isolation (15%), or seeking
self-esteem by expressing power over a homicide victim (12%).
a form of zoophilia, is the sexual interest in
being crawled upon or nibbled by insects, Formicophilia
such as ants, or other small creatures.
This paraphilia often involves the application
of insects to the genitals, but other areas of the
body may also be the focus. The desired effect
may be a tickling, stinging or in the case
of slugs, slimy sensation, or the infliction of
psychological distress on another person.
The term was coined by Ratnin Dewaraja and John Money in 1986 from the

Latin formica (ant) + the Greek philia (love). In the first reported case study, the

patient had started keeping ants in a cupboard of his room as a hobby when he was

nine. At this age he enjoyed "the ticklish feeling" of the ants crawling on his legs and

thighs. At age ten, he had a sexual relationship with another boy, and was beaten when

his father discovered this. By the age of 13 or 14, he had

added snails and cockroaches to his collection, and was becoming increasingly

preoccupied with it. He had begun masturbating while the ants crawled on his legs. At

age 28, he was masturbating several times a week while cockroaches crawled on his

thighs and testicles, and snails crawled over his nipples and penis. Sometimes he
 Somnophilia
Somnophilia is a sexual paraphilia in
which sexual arousal is derived from
intruding on, caressing, and/or fondling
someone (typically a stranger) while
they are asleep without force or
violence.
The term somnophilia was coined by John Money in 1986. He characterized the

condition as a type of sexual fetishism.[1] Money described it as a type of

syndrome: "of the marauding-predatory type in which erotic arousal and

facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and dependent on intruding

upon" someone who is unable to respond. He wrote that often the condition then

subsequently involves the individual waking the unresponsive sexual partner

after the act has been committed.

a paraphilia involving sexual
a statue, doll, mannequin or
attraction
other
to
similar
Agalmatophilia
figurative object. The attraction may include a
desire for actual sexual contact with the object, a
fantasy of having sexual (or non-sexual)
encounters with an animate or inanimate instance
of the preferred object, the act of watching
encounters between such objects, or sexual
pleasure gained from thoughts of being
transformed or transforming another into the
From the Greek agalma 'statue', and -philia φιλία = love.
Agalmatophilia may also encompass Pygmalionism (from
the myth of Pygmalion), which denotes love for an object
of one's own creation. An important fantasy for some
individuals is being transformed into the preferred object
(such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of
immobility or paralysis. Such fantasies may be extended to
role-playing, and the self-coined term used
by fetishists who enjoy being transformed into what
appears to be a "rubber doll" or "latex doll" or trapped
within a statue and displayed in a museum.
 Spectrophilia
sexual attraction to ghosts or sexual arousal from
images in mirrors, as well as the phenomenon of
sexual encounters between ghosts and humans. It
is a fetish that is classified as the paraphilia in
which one is attracted to ghosts or spirits.
Spectrophiliacs fantasize about ghosts and often
imagine scenarios involving sexual events
between themselves or others and spirits.
Sexual intercourse between living human beings and ghosts —
is a phenomenon with a history that dates back centuries. The
folklore of many cultures include stories about humans getting
it on with ghostly entities — gods, demons like the succubus
and it’s male counterpart incubus.
Prepared by: ASTLEY MEI DELA CRUZ and KRISTIAN DAVE DIVA of BSN III