Sexual deviations have always been considered something shameful, condemned by the society and various religions. From harmless, bringing a lot of anxiety only to the very person suffering from a frightful, ugly and harmful harm to others. People with sexual deviations always attracted attention and caused resonance in society.
Psychology of sexual deviations
Sexual perversions or paraphilia seriously began to be studied in the XIX century. the founder of sexology by the Austrian psychiatrist-psychologist R. Kraft-Ebing, in his fundamental work "Sexual psychopathy" describes the known at that time and unusual sexual deviations. Another famous psychiatrist Z. Freud studying the psychology of sexual deviations , created a classification of the development of the person's libido, passing through these phases, at some stage the personality for various reasons gets stuck (fixation) and develop psychological sexual deviations.
Libidinal phases of development of erogenous zones according to Z. Freud:
- oral (from birth to 2 years) sucking on the maternal breast causes pleasure from irritation of oral receptors;
- anal (from 1 to 3 years) - evacuation of the intestine and bladder stimulates the development of the anal erogenous zone;
- phallic (3-5 years) - gender self-identification;
- latent (5 - 12 years) - socialization;
- genital (12-18 years) - interest in the opposite sex.
Causes of sexual deviations
Why there is a formation of this or that perversion, in many ways remains a mystery, especially it concerns heavy perversions, for example necrophilia - craving for corpses. Whether sexual deviations are transmitted by inheritance, for a long time among geneticists there have been controversies, until polymorphic genes transmitted from the mother, which carry the propensity to homosexuality, were found. All other deviations are considered acquired.
Common reasons for sexual paraphilia:
- severe pregnancy;
- trauma in childbirth;
- somatic diseases (hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism);
- disturbances of hormonal metabolism;
- intoxication with narcotic substances;
- mental illness;
- cruelty of parents.
Types of sexual deviations
There are different classifications of sexual disorders, constantly supplemented by new ones. In the ICD-10, the following types of perversions are described:
- exhibitionism - the excitement of showing naked bodies to strangers;
- frotterism - rubbing against another person, without his knowledge for the purpose of gaining sexual pleasure;
- gerontophilia - attraction to the elderly;
- coprophilia is a passion for feces;
- zoophilia (bestiality) - attraction to animals;
- fetishism is an element of clothing, an object symbolizing a sexual partner becomes an object of excitement;
- sadism - causing suffering to another partner in order to obtain pleasure;
- masochism - getting pleasure when hurt and humiliated.
Severe sexual perversions include:
- necrophilia - the commission of sexual intercourse with corpses, the extreme degree of necrosadism is the excision and eating of the genital organs and mammary glands of the deceased person;
- zoosadizm - the desire for pandering to receive pleasure from causing suffering;
- pedophilia - attraction to children.
Unusual sexual deviations:
- Dendrophilia - pleasure from the friction of the genital organs about the trees;
- enemophilia - the introduction of fluid into the vagina or rectum causes orgasm;
- merintophilia - a person experiences pleasures from wrapping it like a mummy with elastic bandages;
- axillism - excitement is achieved from contemplation of axillary hollows, inhalation of odor of sweat and friction against the lower sexual organs;
- Plushfiliya - sexual satisfaction from contact with plush toys.
Sexual abnormalities in women
Sexual perversions among the female part of the population have their own characteristics. Violations of a sexual nature in women:
- lesbianism - the attraction of a woman to her sex;
- female masochism - receiving sexual relaxation during tying or flogging;
- nymphomania - pathological uncontrolled attraction to men;
- female autoerotism (Havelock-Ellis syndrome) - sexual stimulation of the clitoris by a stream of water, in the subsequent woman it is difficult to get a normal orgasm with a man.
Sexual abnormalities in men
Men's impairments are more common than female sexual deviations. Sexual abnormalities characteristic of the stronger sex:
- homosexuality is an attraction to the object of one's sex, among doctors there is no common opinion whether this is the norm or not;
- fetish-transvestism - sexual relaxation from dressing in women's clothing, while a man can have normal sexual relations with women;
- Voyeurism - spying on the process of coitus of other people, this also includes a supervaluation of pornography;
- morphophilia - love for very fat women;
- macroginophilia - attraction to women of two-meter and above growth;
- pygmalionism - getting sexual pleasure from contact with statues, dolls.
The effects of deviations and perversions
Sexual mental deviations cause complexities and complexities in a person's relationship with society. Many of the deviations, such as pedophilia, necrophilia, sadism (rape and harm) are criminally punishable or entail compulsory psychiatric treatment. More often, light perversions bring psychological harm to the person himself, making him disharmonious and unable to get normal pleasure from sex.
Is it possible to cure perversions?
Sexual perversions are amenable to correction in case the patient recognizes the deviation. Treatment is based on the individual characteristics of the individual. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, hypnotherapy proved itself well. In severe cases, pharmacotherapy is prescribed with the use of hormonal and psychotropic drugs.
Movies about sexual deviations
The theme of sexual deviations has always been interesting:
- "Lolita" Adrian Line (1997) - perhaps the most famous film about sexual deviations
- "Fifty shades of gray" Johnson (2015).
- "The Secretary" Steven Sheinberg (2002).
- "Stonewall" (1995) - the main idea of the film - "gays are also people."
- "The Bitter Moon" Roman Polanski (1992) - love is sadism or masochism?
- "Necromancy" by Jörg Butggerait (1987).
- "Mysterious Leather" by Gregg Araki (2004) is a film showing how childhood traumas completely change lives.