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Gender Identity Disorder
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People feel they are the opposite sex
Have aversion to same-sex clothing and activities Typically begins in childhood 6.6x more frequent in boys |
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Causes of GID
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Influenced by hormones
Related to sex hormone levels during pregnancy |
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Therapies of GID
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Altering body to suit person's psychology
- Sex reassignment surgery - Hormone administration Altering psychology to match person's body |
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Paraphilias (9)
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Disorders involving sexual attraction to unusual objects or sexual activities that are unusual in nature
Last at least six months and must cause significant distress or impairment |
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Fetishism
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Reliance on inanimate objects for sexual arousal
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Transvetic Fetishism
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A male who is sexually aroused by dressing in women's clothing, although he still regards himself as a man
Heterosexual Masculine in appearance, demeanour, sexual preference |
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Pedophilia
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Sexual gratification through physical and often sexual contact with prepubescent children
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Incest
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Sexual relations between close relatives for whom marriage is forbidden
Most common between brotherxsister, fatherxdaughter Unusually patriarchal and traditional family structure More prevalent when mother is absent or disabled |
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Voyeurism
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Sexual gratification by watching others in state of undress or having sexual relations
Typically do not get aroused by watching others who have consented |
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Exhbitionism
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Sexual gratification by exposing one's genitals to an unwilling stranger
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Frotteurism
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Sexually oriented touching of an unsuspecting person
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Sexual sadism
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Increasing sexual gratification through administering pain or humiliation
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Sexual masochism
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Obtaining or increasing sexual gratification through subjecting oneself to pain or humiliation
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Therapies of paraphilias
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Behaviour techniques:
Orgasmic reorientation - substituting problematic things to more socially acceptable ones |
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Rape (2)
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Forced - sexual intercourse with an unwilling partner
Statutory - sex with someone underage |
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Rape characteristics
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Act of violence, aggression, domination and an act of sex
Very high hostility towards women Lack social skills Low self-esteem Low levels of empathy for their victims |
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Sexual desire disorders
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Hypoactive sexual desire disorder
- Lack of desire for sex, absent sexual fantasies/urges - More women than men Sexual aversion disorder - Active avoidance of nearly all genital contact with another person |
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Sexual arousal disorders
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Female sexual arousal disorder (20%)
Male erectile disorder (3-9%) |
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Orgasmic disorders
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Female orgasmic disdorder
- Absence of orgasm after period of normal sexual excitement Male orgasmic disorder - Difficulty ejaculating Premature ejaculation |
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Sexual pain disorders
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Dyspareunia
- Persistent or recurrent pain during sex Vaginismus - Involuntary spasms of the outer third of the vag to a degree that makes sex impossible |