A Apotemnophilia D DSM-5 E Ellis, HavelockF Féré, Charles

It’s a related [a The latest edition of the He’s perhaps best known for He was a 19th Century French person’s main turn-on is Diagnostic and Statistical popularising the term ‘pervert’ physician who was inspired by WE ARE ALL something other than the Manual of Mental Disorders. – odd, considering he was a Ellis’s book, Sexual Inversion, norm] to acrotomophilia, which There were three disorders urophile [he got o! by watching and was of the opinion that is someone with an amputee rejected as new, certifiable women peeing]. A British homosexuality was an aberration fetish, but this involves mental illnesses in this edition sexologist in the late-19th that needed to be cured and someone who wants to cut because they either lacked Century, he was interested in eliminated from society. He had o! a part of their own body. su"cient empirical work that human sexual variations. I see a list of characteristics that he They’re aroused by the thought is necessary to include them him as one of the good guys, used to deduce whether a man of themselves as an amputee. conceptually or they were seen actually. He was one of the or woman was gay or straight Oftentimes they don’t know as having moralistic problems. first sexologists of the time just by looking at them. So, where this urge came from but Perhaps most controversial was to really approach the topic according to him, they had a they will have a recollection of , where a man is from an objective scientific particular distribution of body standing in front of a mirror and only sexually aroused by sexual perspective. When he coined fat and body hair, they had a masturbating with an arm or coercion. It’s basically a rape the term ‘pervert’, it was used to di!erent gait to heterosexuals, a leg behind them, like they’re paraphilia. The big concern describe someone who society and so on. He had some really PERVERTS feigning amputation, as an early with that, obviously, is the fear saw as going against what was insane ideas, like gay men adolescent. They feel like they that if people are diagnosed morally right. For a long time it couldn’t whistle, and their were born into the wrong body, with it then it would lead to was a religious term, referring penises looked di!erent from much like transsexuals do, and less severe punishment and to an atheist, or those who straight men’s penises. (Neither their idealised self-image is that sentences for rapists. went against the Bible. of which, I assure you, is true.) of an amputee – and there’s a sexual component to that. It can be dangerous, in that some people will go so far as to use “You want a wood chipper or dry ice or an to put that axe to remove a limb because SDANA;Ï they can’t find a surgeon to do it for them. B Bonobos

Among many other things, women actually get genitally aroused by looking at bonobos having sex, suggesting that their sexual response is a lot more wide-ranging than male sexuality. Men’s arousal patterns seem to be far more predictable and circumscribed; scenes of bonobo sex leave (most of) us limp.

C Cupid

Let’s shatter a classic romance myth: Cupid was not a cute Gauging Arousal little cherub. In fact, in the G original Roman tale, he was In his new book Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, a malevolent demon who inspired lust in poor, hapless A device called the was originally up with a way to Today the characters and took delight in plethysmograph, invented in the quickly detect plethysmograph is psychologist Jesse Bering, PhD discusses the most causing marriages to collapse. a sort of erection- 1950s. Kurt Freund which men were used for a variety It’s only in the 20th detection machine was a psychiatrist lying about being of (non-military) taboo issues of human sexuality. Here, he offers an Century that Cupid able to notice even hired by the gay just to get out purposes, both by became associated subtle changes in Czechoslovakian of their obligatory forensic scientists A-Z of the wonderfully weird aspects of sex with Valentine’s Day penile tumescence, army to come military service. and sexologists. and all that.

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I Imprinting L Legality

Just a typical There’s a major Let’s say there’s a woman who Pqao`]u night in di!erence between is attracted to horses. She’s Objectum male and female been attracted to them for as sexuality, in that long as she can remember. She boys are more has a horse in her stable and O Sexuals likely to be sexually imprinted she gently masturbates it to in early childhood than orgasm, an experience that also girls are. Also, girls seem to sexually gratifies her. Compare You may have heard been in physical have a more fluid sexuality. that with a woman who owns N Natural & Normal about the woman who contact with a person If you look at people who a stud farm and inserts a rod married the Ei!el Tower they find desirable. have sexual , it’s into the anus of the horse to I think we spend way too much – Erika Ei!el is her name. Objectophiles are an overwhelmingly male probe its prostate and extract time, as a society, focusing on Interestingly, these people in love solely with a phenomenon, and these men semen via electroejaculation and being preoccupied with are attracted to or fall in single object. It could often say something happened for breeding purposes. The what is normal and what is love with individual or be the Ei!el Tower but between the ages of four and first example is illegal but the natural when it comes to human particular objects. They’re more commonly it’s nine that sent them down this second is legal. Interestingly, sexuality. Not enough time is not fetishists, as a fetishist an everyday object, irreversible track. That is, they the second example is painful spent on the more meaningful is aroused by a whole like a bookcase, were sexually “imprinted”. but the first example is not. question: What is harmful? category of objects – ladder, table, or chair. Paraphilias are a mystery, This illustrates how sex laws From an ethical perspective, panties, for instance – and It’s a rare group and, though, since you can’t do are often more concerned with the focus on natural and normal crave them because they’ve curiously, these experiments on two groups of criminalising what is “unnatural”, is pointless and not useful or people often fall children, one group undergoing entirely sidestepping the issue meaningful or philosophically >nejcejcjas somewhere along some weird developmental of harm – and that’s a problem. valuable. Who cares whether meaning to the the Autistic Spectrum. skn`Ðhkraoa]pÑ experience, then twiddle your something is natural or normal? They may also thumbs for 20 years to see But is an activity causing harm? have a neurological who ends up with a paraphilia. M Money, John That’s what is important for us disorder called to understand. “object personification A very controversial sexologist synesthesia”, where J Judging who is most widely known for they basically get their the “John/Joan case”, which wires crossed and see Sexual deviance is something involved a little boy who was inanimate objects as that happens throughout the an identical twin. When the having personalities, animal kingdom but humans twins were born, he and his emotions, and, are the only species with a brother had circumcisions, but apparently, sexual judgmental perspective. Other one of them, David Reimer, had desires. Some primate species might punish a botched circumcision. It was objectophiles sexual transgressors – if, say, so bad that, basically, his penis talk about being a subordinate chimp has sex was destroyed. So his parents polyamorous, too with a female it shouldn’t – were stuck in this horrible – being involved but there wouldn’t be any position of what to do next but with several objects. notable social ostracising if John Money recommended it, just to give some colourful gender reassignment and to P Paraphilia examples, deposited its penis raise the child as a girl and not in the ear of an elder or stuck to tell the child he was born a A outside of a stick up its you-know-what boy. Money thought that gender the norm. Although there in full public view. This sort of was just a social construction are as many as 500 of them, judgmental outlook on others’ – not biological – but he was everything from climacophilia Q Quadrillion R Ratio Hypersexuality deviant sexuality is unique dead wrong. Fast-forward 10, 15 [getting your most intense H to our species, and that’s not years and Reimer began having orgasms from falling down The approximate number of sex The paraphilias are necessarily positive. major adjustment problems; stairs] to savantophilia [being cells – really! – that an average overwhelmingly a male basically, “she” felt like a boy. attracted to the mentally human male will produce phenomenon – in terms of King Louis XIII After hearing the full story and impaired], the “Big 8” included over an average lifespan. It’s clinical, diagnosable paraphilias This was rejected to people who a foreign substance a very heated K then adopting a male identity, in the DSM-5 are transvestic an almost limitless supply of (not just a lighthearted “kink”), from the DSM-5 are hypersexual. that modifies brain issue. Also, he ultimately committed fetishism, , spermatozoa. From a biological it’s as high as 99-to-1 in favour and there’s lots Many psychiatrists chemistry. So to there’s the issue Also known as “Louis suicide. Everyone blamed John [touching people perspective, casual sex isn’t of men. Sadomasochism is the of controversy believe ‘addiction’ use ‘addiction’ of what is too the Chaste”, this 17th Money and his name remains in crowded places], , as much of a risk for men, as only category of “deviance” in and debate over should refer to describe a much sex or Century French royal mired in the ‘John/Joan case’ , fetishism, sadism, there’s e!ectively an endless which women are represented whether the only to a pscho- sexual compulsion masturbation? was thought to be the but he actually was influential and masochism. Some scholars supply of sperm cells, whereas at a slightly higher rate, but term ‘addiction’ pharmacological is conceptually It’s di!erent most prudish monarch in in our understanding of the prefer the term “paralagnia” women have a limited supply of even here, there are more men can be applied dependence on problematic – it’s for everyone. history – until it was revealed paraphilias, too. That work over “paraphilia”, since we’re eggs that they’re born with and, (20-to-1), and, also, women are that, all along, he’d been of his is much better, in fact, dealing with unusual forms needless to say, they can face disproportionately more likely sleeping with a crimson-headed but it’s overshadowed by the of lust (Greek: lagnia), not, a sobering nine-month reality to be sexually masochistic than marquis [a nobleman] gifted to Reimer case. per se, love (philia). after a minute of carnal bliss. they are sadistic. him by his sensible first minister.

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X X-Ray

Believe it or not, one of the first known uses of radiotherapy was Î@q`a(pd]pÑo what your mum a “clinical” obliteration of the sa]nopk^a`;Ï clitorises of adolescent girls who were caught masturbating by their shocked and horrified parents. This was on the heels of the Victorian era, an extremely prudish and conservative time period. These X-ray clitoridectomies weren’t happening in backwater clinics, but in some of the most fashionable, “progressive” cities in the world, including London and New York City. Y Yellow definition of harm and apply Along with, say, purple, green, and it to everyone blue, yellow is the colour of sickly S Subjectivity through the legal genitalia and not something you and psychiatric want to see when you pull down system. Not only the pants of that hot date of yours. I mentioned vagina in my face, experience. On the does sexual harm We evolved to be hypervigilant harm earlier. The I’m completely other hand, if that di!er for every to signs of sexually transmitted subjectivity of homosexual, so is happened to my individual but disease and colour is a good sexual harm is that harmful? Would straight brother, it’s if we’re going clue. In the heat of the moment, important. For I require therapy? doubtful he’d be to assume it’s we’ll go for it at all costs, unless example, if I were Well, that might “harmed”. We need occurred, we there’s something transparently at a strip club be a stretch, but to be careful not should be able wrong with the person we’re and a beautiful it would certainly to concoct some to show exactly about to have sex with. STIs are woman put her be an aversive generic, abstract how it’s done so. often asymptomatic but one of the telltale signs of a problem is the colour of the genitalia. If it doesn’t look quite right, that tends to turn us o!, and adaptively so. W Wanking T Theory of MindU Uranophilia Z Zoophilia Interestingly, the perception By the time we’re in Technically, it’s a paraphilia may be that with online porn Scientists believe zoophilia is kindergarten, we can “theorise” in which one derives their men are masturbating more a genuine sexual orientation about unobservable mental most intense sexual feelings than ever. That may be, but represented by as much as a states. We can’t literally see from thinking about Heaven. they seem to be ejaculating full one per cent of the human minds, but we can draw Contrast this with stygiophilia, at about the same frequency population. Just as it’s impossible inferences as to why someone in which the person gets o! as they always have been. In for non-zoophiles to become is behaving a certain way (literally) from the thought fact, the reported “TSO” (Total aroused by the steaming, mottled (hence, “theory of mind”). This of going to Hell. Sexual Outlets, or the number member of a Clydesdale, “true unique cognitive capacity had of ejaculations per week) is zoophiles” can’t get (easily) dramatic implications for human “three” among college-age turned on by human beings. sexuality. For example, we Vaginal males. That’s pretty much One such man – a physician could now think about what V Vasocongestion the same as it was in the from suburbia, incidentally – could other people were aroused by, era of Alfred Kinsey, who only consummate his marriage to whether they were attracted first collected data in the a woman by closing his eyes and to us, and, perhaps most A measure of female sexual very pre-Internet 1940s. imagining his new bride as a horse. importantly, to conceptualise arousal, using vaginal Strangely, the marriage didn’t last. consent. Basically, theory of bloodflow. This is, essentially, mind gave us a sexual morality. the female version of the Perv is out An animal can’t “rape” if it can’t penile plethysmograph, and in October grasp the fact that the other it’s how we know that graphic through Random has a mind and is capable scenes of ape sex stimulate House. Find of su!ering. women’s genitals. out more here: randomhouse. com.au 68 MAXIM.COM.AU