Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
paraphilia . - noun One who has a
paraphilia .
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Examples
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This effect is most pronounced for those who prefer "paraphilic" content to "mainstream" content, though this distinction leaves something to be desired.
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If they preferred BDSM, fetishism, bestiality, or violence/coercion, they were coded as "paraphilic" users.
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Acrotomophilia (attraction to amputees), Gerontophilia (attraction to elderly people), Fat Fetishism (attraction to fat people), etc., and have forwarded them in the medical literature to denote the presumed "paraphilic" nature of such attractions.
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The more deviant the sexual practices of the offender, the younger the abused child; the more sociopathic or antisocial personality traits displayed, the greater the treatment noncompliance; and the greater the number of paraphilic interests reported by the offender, the higher the likelihood of reoffense.
"American taxpayers are funding a lavishly appointed hospital in which hundreds of child molesters and rapists can idle their days away." Ann Althouse 2009
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E people who were always considered intersexed, who reject their assignment, will be labeled as paraphilic.
Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol Zoe Brain 2008
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B "DSD persons" who would not have been called intersex under the LESS inclusive category of intersex, if they reject their gender assignment, will be labeled as paraphilic.
Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol Zoe Brain 2008
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Thus, those who wish to reject a male assignment will be labeled as paraphilic, and those who want to live as males will make this appear more justifiable, plus this will fuel their desire against feminizing surgeries Those who virilize at puberty and insist on masculinizing surgeries will be those whom they will seek to find grant money for in order to investigate if autoandrophilia the counterpart in “females” of autogynephilia exists.
Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol Zoe Brain 2008
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A M to F TRANSSEXUALS will be the first to be classified as paraphilic.
Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol Zoe Brain 2008
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That's -- and what you have there is sort of a pairing of a paraphilic or sexual disorder like pedophilia, and if you pair that with psychopathy or sociopathy, where they have no empathy, you're almost guaranteed you're going to have a guy molesting many, many kids.
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"The devotees I think are paraphilic, but not the apotemnophiles."
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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