SEXUAL PERVERSIONS
INTRODUCTION:
- Perversion – Type of human behavior deviating from orthodox or normal.
- Describes sexual behaviors considered particularly abnormal, repulsive or obsessive.
- Considered derogatory & in psychological literature “paraphilia” used as replacement.
Forms included:
- Clinically richly diversified collection of erotic endowments & inclinations:
- Pedophelia
- Sodomy
- Necrophilia
- Sadomasochism
- Exhibitionism
- Bestiality
- Fetishism -Sexual perversion characterized by sexual pleasure derived from inanimate objects.
PEDOPHILIA or PAEDOPHILIA:
- Psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
- Process of puberty:
- Girls begin at age 10 or 11.
- Boys at age 11 or 12.
- Diagnosis:
- Criteria for pedophilia extend cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13.
- Diagnosed person must be at least 16 years old; adolescents must be at least 5 years older than attracted prepubescent child.
SODOMY:
- Generally anal or oral sex between people or sexual activity between person & a non-human animal (bestiality).
- Also mean any non-procreative sexual activity.
- “Catamite” – Young boy acting as a passive agent of sodomy.
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“Buggery/Sodomy” – Heterosexual penile anal intercourse.
- Foecal smell, tear of frenulum, relative constriction of shaft of penis – Seen in person accused with sodomy.
- Sec. 377 IPC deals with sodomy.
NECROPHILIA/THANATOPHILIA:
- Sexual attraction or sexual act involving corpses.
- Attraction classified as “paraphilia” by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual(DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association.
SADOMASOCHISM:
- Giving or receiving pleasure from acts involving receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation.
- Practitioners of sadomasochism may seek sexual gratification from their acts.
- Note: Sadist & masochist refer respectively to one who enjoys giving or receiving pain, practitioners of sadomasochism may switch between activity and passivity.
EXHIBITIONISM:
- Act of exposing in a public or semi-public context those parts of one’s body that are not normally exposed (breasts, genitals or buttocks).
- Causes:
- Due to desire or compulsion to expose themselves to groups of friends or acquaintances, or to strangers for their amusement or sexual satisfaction or to shock bystander.
- Exposing oneself only to an intimate partner is normally not regarded as exhibitionism.
- In law referred as “indecent exposure”, “exposing one’s person”, or other expressions.
- Exhibitionism is punishable under Sec 294 IPC for imprisonment upto 3 months or fine or both.
BESTIALITY:
- Cross-species sexual activity between human & non-human animals.
- Making distinction between attraction (zoophilia) & act (bestiality) is important.
- Sex with animals (bestiality) is illegal under animal abuse laws or laws dealing with crimes against nature.
Exam Important
- Catamite is Young passive victim of sodomy
- Faecal smell,Tear of Frenulum,Relative Constriction of shaft of penis is seen in accuse of sodomy
- Unnatural sexual offences are Sodomy & Buccal coitus
- Bestiality is Having intercourse with an animal
- Sec. 377 IPC deals with sodomy
- Fetishism is a sexual perversion characterized by Sexual pleasure derived from inanimate objects
- Taking off ones clothes and running naked in a public race is called Exhibitionism
- Anal intercourse between two males or between a male and female is called sodomy
- Exhibitionism is punishable under Sec 294 IPC for imprisonment upto 3 months or fine or both.
- Heterosexual penile anal intercourse is called Buggery/Sodomy
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