1What are Sexual Disorders? CLASS OBJECTIVES:What is Gender Identity Disorder?What are Paraphilias?What is “Normal” Sexual Behavior?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What is “Normal” Sexuality?Sexuality is a normal part of the human experience. However, the types of sexual behavior that are considered normal vary ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________2Gender Identity Disorder_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Does Anatomy Determine Gender Identity? Gender Identity _______________________________ ______________________________________________Research indicates that gender identity is fixed in _____________________________________ ______________________________________________Gender Identity Disorder This disorder (previously “______________________”is present when a person’s physical gender is not ____________________________________________________- People often report feeling trapped in a body of the wrong sex.3Is Damon a Transvestite? Or Homosexual?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- The primary goal is __________________________________, but to live their life openly as the opposite gender. - Gender reassignment surgery is an option for some.Gender identity is independent of sexual arousal patterns.- Example: A male-to-female transsexual may be sexually attracted to females, which technically makes the attraction homosexual. Why does this happen?Research has not yet confirmed a cause, but it is widely believed that this is the result ___________________________________________________________________________________TreatmentThe most common decision is to alter the anatomy to be physically consistent with the identity through ___________________________________________________________- _________________________________________________________________Each person seeking this must qualify by demonstrating stability:- Psychologically- Socially - Financially4What if you are NOTsexually attracted to other adults?Rather you are attracted to animals, non-human items or children?Paraphilias______________________________________Paraphilias are sometimes referred to as _________________________________________Paraphilias include fantasies, behaviors, or sexual urges focusing ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________Paraphilias include: - Sexual urges or sexual fantasies with _________________________ - Sexual behaviors with non-human objects - Sexual behaviors involving ________________________ or suffering of oneself or another person - Adult sexual behavior that involves ___________________________ ___________________________________________________________5Some of common Paraphilias include: Exhibitionism - sexual gratification gained by exposing oneself to others Frotteurism - sexual urges are related to the touching or rubbing of their body against a non-consenting, unfamiliar woman. Masochism - Sexual pleasure is often gained from being hurt or humiliated. Sadism - Sexual pleasure is gained from inflicting or receiving pain.- Some of the severe activities involved include burning, beating,stabbing, raping, and killing. Fetishism- People experience sexual urges and behavior which are associatedwith non-living objects. PedophiliaThis sexual deviance involves sexual attraction to children or very young adolescents.Individuals with this pattern of arousal may be attracted to male children, female children or both._________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- Approx. 90% of abusers are ______and 10% are ____________I’m LOVING the child-not hurting them!Most child molesters are not physically ______________ This allows the abuser to rationalize their behavior as ___________________6These individuals commonly explain their activities with excuses that the activities have ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________.Pedophilia usually begins in _____________________ although some individuals report they did not become aroused by children until middle age. Most people with this disorder have experience _________________________________________________TreatmentPedophiles _______________________________________, because their sexual preference has always been, and always will be, children. Their urges will always be present.- The course of the disorder usually is _______________________________________________________ which is the reason that most treatment programs emphasize a relapse-prevention model Next Class…Psychotic Disorders- Schizophrenia and Delusional
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