BACKGROUND To increase understanding of the relationships among sexual violence, paraphilias, and mental illness, the authors assessed the legal and psychiatric features of 113 men convicted of sexual offenses. METHOD 113 consecutive male sex offenders referred from prison, jail, or probation to a residential treatment facility received structured clinical interviews for DSM-IV Axis I and II ...

Six patients with severe paraphilia were treated with a long-acting gonadotrophin hormone releasing hormone analogue (GnRH-a). In five cases, the antiandrogen treatment ended their deviant sexual behaviour and markedly decreased their sexual fantasies and activities without significant side-effects. The beneficial effects of this treatment were maintained for 7 years in the patient where there ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this paper is to describe and conceptualize an unusual and probably rare condition: the intense longstanding desire to have an amputation. METHOD Structured interviews were conducted by telephone of 52 subjects (mean age: 48.6, range 23-77 years; 47 male, 4 female, 1 intersexed) self-identified as having had a desire to have an amputation. RESULTS Seventeen per c...

The Internet is an inseparable part of contemporary man’s everyday life. catalog positive sides this global information system, which encourage the development creativity, inexhaustible. Simultaneously, many negative aspects in context breach security, exposure to inappropriate content and promotion bestiality exist. Therefore, paper we pay special attention zoophilia, a specific disorder from ...

Evidence relevant to a potential diagnosis of Paraphilic Coercive Disorder is reviewed. Salient cues indicating that their partner is feeling coerced normally at least partially inhibit male sexual arousal while cues indicating mutual interest heighten arousal. However, for a minority of males, this pattern reverses with salient coercion cues leading to heightened arousal. This unusual pattern ...

Necrophilia, the act of engaging in sexual activity with a dead body, represents disturbing and rare form paraphilia. This research paper explores historical origins, psychological aspects, legal dimensions necrophilia, focusing on its classification into different classes based intent actions. Through analysis numerous case studies from various regions, motivations behind such acts are examine...

Most civilly committed sexual offenders are sexually disordered. Sexually disordered offenders— that is, those with a paraphilic disorder— cannot be cured. However, research evidence suggests that many can be successfully treated. In general, the treatment of any chronic behavioral disorder, be it drug addiction, alcoholism, or a paraphilia, depends on the availability of adequate community-bas...