| Paraphilia (par-uh-FILL-ee-uh) | Recurring, unconventional sexual behavior that is obsessive and compulsive.
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| Fetishism | A person's sexual fixation on some object other than another human being and attachment of great erotic significance to that object.
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| Media fetish | A fetish whose object is anything made of a particular substance, such as leather.
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| Form fetish | A fetish whose object is a particular shape, such as high-heeled shoes.
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| Transvestism | The practice of deriving sexual gratification from dressing as a member of the other gender.
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| Drag queen | A male homosexual who dresses in women's clothing.
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| Female impersonator | A man who dresses up as a woman as part of a job in entertainment.
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| Compulsive sexual behavior | A disorder in which the individual experiences intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges, and associated sexual behaviors.
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| Sexual sadist | A person who derives sexual satisfaction from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on another person.
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| Sexual masochist | A person who derives sexual satisfaction from experiencing pain.
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| Bondage and discipline | The use of physical or psychological restraint to enforce servitude, from which both participants derive sensual pleasure.
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| Dominance and submission | The use of power consensually given to control the sexual stimulation and behavior of the other person.
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| Voyeur | A person who becomes sexually aroused from secretly viewing nudes.
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| Scoptophilia | A sexual variation in which the person becomes sexually aroused by observing others' sexual acts and genitals.
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| Exhibitionist | A person who derives sexual gratification from exposing his genitals to others in situations in which this is inappropriate.
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| Nymphomania (nim-for-MANE-ee-uh) | An excessive, insatiable sex drive in a woman.
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| Satyriasis (sat-ur-EYE-uh-sis) | An excessive, insatiable sex drive in a man; also called Don Juanism.
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| Hypersexuality | An excessive, insatiable sex drive in either men or women.
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| Asphyxiophilia | The desire to induce in oneself a state of oxygen deficiency in order to create sexual arousal or to enhance excitement and orgasm.
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| Troilism (TROY-uhl-ism) | Three people having sex together.
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| Saliromania | A desire to damage or soil a woman or her clothes.
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| Coprophilia (cop-roh-FILL-ee-uh) | Deriving sexual satisfaction from contact with feces.
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| Urophilia (YUR-oh-fill-ee-uh) | Deriving sexual satisfaction from contact with urine.
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| Frotteurism | Deriving sexual satisfaction from fantasies, urges or behaviors involving touching or rubbing one's genitals against the body of a nonconsenting person.
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| Necrophilia | Deriving sexual satisfaction from contact with a dead person.
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| Zoophilia | Sexual contact with an animal; also called bestiality or sodomy.
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