Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
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- noun any
sexual deviation , which is considered abnormal in some societies or which may prevent or hinder one's ability to receivereciprocal love
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- noun abnormal sexual activity
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Dr. Wollert testified that if an individual were to commit 100 rapes over greater than a six-month period they still would not likely fit the definition of paraphilia deviant sexual disorder," Small wrote.
The Seattle Times 2012
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I think there ` s a term called paraphilia, which is just being interested in everything.
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I think there ` s a term called paraphilia, which is just being interested in everything.
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I think there ` s a term called paraphilia, which is just being interested in everything.
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Lafferty's red herring usage of her favorite "paraphilia" or sexual deviation instead of sexual orientation or gender identity is a dead giveaway that she is attempting to feed off her readers 'fear and confusion.
Bil Browning: TVC's Andrea Lafferty: A zombie queen in pastel 2010
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Lafferty's red herring usage of her favorite "paraphilia" or sexual deviation instead of sexual orientation or gender identity is a dead giveaway that she is attempting to feed off her readers 'fear and confusion.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Bil Browning 2010
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Two words you're extremely unlikely to hear at a bar are "prosopagnosia" and "paraphilia," yet at the Pacific Standard bar in Park Slope, both are discussed at length.
Gamut of Lives Viewed Under A Microscope Andy Beta 2011
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Pedophilia: “paraphilia in which children are the preferred sexual object.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? 2010
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The one paraphilia that remains absolutely verboten is pedophilia.
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Another storyteller outlined "paraphilia," an obscure word used in the New York penal code to denote all sexual perversions and how it was applied to him in his divorce proceedings.
Gamut of Lives Viewed Under A Microscope Andy Beta 2011
john commented on the word paraphilia
“In 1996, when she worked as an assistant to a sexologist at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, then called the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, she found herself the only woman on a floor of researchers investigating male sexual preferences and what are known as paraphilias — erotic desires that fall far outside the norm.�?
The New York Times, What Do Women Want?, by Daniel Bergner, January 22, 2009
January 24, 2009