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The Sexually Disordered Couple
Published in Len Sperry, Katherine Helm, Jon Carlson, The Disordered Couple, 2019
Shannon B. Dermer, Molli E. Mercer
The fact that Doug and Christa liked to engage in kinky sex did not constitute a disorder (or even a paraphilia), but the fact that the infantilism was persistent, intense, and equal to or exceeding his interest in normophilic sex, and started to cause significant distress for Doug and his relationship with Christa, meant a Paraphilic Disorder should be considered. Doug had engaged in infantilistic sexual fantasies and behaviors on and off since he was in his 20s. Infantilism is a paraphilia, but does not fit with the eight Paraphilic Disorders described in the DSM-5. Because the paraphilia was intense, persistent, had lasted more than six months, and was causing distress, Doug could be diagnosed with other Specified Paraphilic Disorder, Autonepiophilia. The other Specified Paraphilic Disorder is used when the sexual urges, fantasies, and/or behaviors do not meet the criteria and qualitative description for one of the eight Paraphilic Disorders.
Demystifying Zoophilia: Classification and Psychological Aspects of Humans Having Sexual Relationships with Animals
Published in International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 2021
Lisa Emmett, Lisa Klamert, Birgit U. Stetina
It is, therefore, not surprising that zoosexual behavior is often insufficiently defined and that scholars have not yet found consensus even on how to name the phenomenon. Literature refers to a multitude of terms, such as zoophilia, bestiality, zooerasty or zoorastery, zoophilism when trying to define zoosexual behavior (Holoyda & Newman, 2014). Recent revisions of diagnostic manuals offer the following varying categorizations of zoophilia. The 5th Version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) addresses zoophilia as ‘other specified paraphilic disorder’ while the 10th version of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) (World Health Organization, 1992) describes it as ‘disorder of sexual preference’ (F65.8). The F65.8 categorization includes a variety of uncommon sexual preferences (such as sexual activity with animals), which are too diverse and rare to form a separate category (American Psychiatric Association, 1995, 2013; World Health Organization, 2014).
Psychological treatment of problematic sexual interests: cross-country comparison
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2019
Kateřina Klapilová, Liubov Y. Demidova, Helen Elliott, Charles A. Flinton, Petr Weiss, J. Paul Fedoroff
There are distinct differences in types of sexual crimes, with men who commit rape having different behavioural patterns and cognitive distortions than criminal sexual sadists (in DSM 5, some ‘rapists’ belong to ‘Other specified paraphilic disorder’, other individuals who commit sexual assault would not be considered for a paraphilic diagnosis) (Freund, Seto, & Kuban, 1997). Therefore, specialists in some countries work with specific diagnoses such as pathological sexual aggression (Weiss, 2017), biastophilia, or a preferential rape pattern (Freund et al., 1997).