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Abnormal sexual activity
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paraphilia
Word definitions for paraphilia in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A technical term for a sexual attraction of an unusual or pathological nature. 2 Sexual arousal in response to sexual objects or situations which may interfere with the capacity for reciprocal affectionate sexual activity or lead to clinically significant ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Paraphilia (also known as sexual perversion and sexual deviation ) is the experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, fetishes , situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals. No consensus has been found for any precise border between unusual ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1913, from German paraphilie (by 1903), apparently coined by Austrian ethnologist Friedrich Salomo Krauss (1859-1938) as literally "inverted erotic instinct," from Greek para- "beside, aside" (see para- (1)) + philos "loving" (see -phile ).\n\nThe neurotic ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. abnormal sexual activity
Usage examples of paraphilia.
Fetishism, infantilism, transvestism, sadism, exhibitionism, and frotteurism are among the more than forty recognized paraphilias.
Vaguely disappointed I started to replace the bookmarker, but glanced at it and The P volume also had a bookmark, this time in the page for paraphilia.