This document defines and describes several paraphilias including pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, and frotteurism. It notes that paraphilias involve frequent, intense sexually arousing fantasies or behaviors involving nonconsenting or underage partners. The document also discusses treatment options for paraphilias which have included therapy and medication to lower sex drive.

1. A Teen’s Guide

5. Paraphilias are frequent, intense,
sexually arousing fantasies or
behaviors that involve inanimate
objects, children or nonconsenting
adults, or suffering or humiliation of
oneself or the partner.

7. Pedophilia (sexual focus on children)
Exhibitionism (exposure of genitals to
strangers)
Voyeurism (observing private activities of
unaware victims)
Frotteurism (touching, rubbing against a
nonconsenting person)

8. Pedophilic disorder is
characterized by
recurring, intense
sexually arousing
fantasies, urges, or
behavior involving
children (usually 13
years old or younger).

9. WHAT IS EXHIBITIONISM?
Exhibitionism involves exposing the genitals
to become sexually excited or having a strong
desire to be observed by other people during
sexual activity.


10. Voyeurism involves
becoming sexually
aroused by watching
someone who is
disrobing, naked, or
engaged in sexual
activity.

11. FROTTEURISTIC
DISORDER, OR
FROTTEURISM, IS
THE ACT OF
TOUCHING OR
RUBBING ONE'S
GENITALS UP
AGAINST ANOTHER
PERSON IN A SEXUAL
MANNER WITHOUT
THEIR CONSENT, IN
ORDER TO DERIVE
SEXUAL PLEASURE
OR REACH ORGASM.

12. Fetishism (use of inanimate objects)
Sexual Masochism (being humiliated or
forced to suffer)
Sexual Sadism (inflicting humiliation or
suffering)
Transvestic Disorder (sexually
arousing cross-dressing)

13. WHO IS EFFECTED BY
PARAPHILIA’S
. DSM-IV-TR reports that, except for
sexual masochism, with a sex ratio of 20
males to each female, paraphilias are
almost never diagnosed in females

14. WHAT IS THE TREATMENT FOR
PARAPHILICS?
Treatment approaches have included traditional
psychoanalysis, hypnosis, and behavior therapy
techniques.
More recently, a class of drugs called antiandrogens
that drastically lower testosterone levels temporarily
have been used in conjunction with these forms of
treatment.
The drug lowers sex drive in males and reduces the
frequency of mental imagery of sexually arousing
scenes

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