Why are the paraphilias mental disorders?

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 927-929

  Shindel, Alan W ^a   Moser, Charles A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BISEXUAL FEMALE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISABILITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; EROTISM; FETISHISM; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LESBIAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MASOCHISM; MASTURBATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NYMPHOMANIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SADISM; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVIATION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSVESTISM;

EID: 79951972596     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.02087.x     Document Type: Note

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