PSYCHOSEXUAL » sexual perversion

Sadism as a psychosexual disorder

Albert — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:29:26 +0000

“The perfect counterpart to masochism is sadism,” wrote Austro-German sexologist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing in his 1886 text Psychopathia Sexualis. “While in the former there is a desire to suffer and be subjected to violence, in the latter the wish is to inflict pain and use of violence.” When Krafft-Ebing wrote of sexual perversions in [...]

Psychosexual disorders among Sex offenders

Albert — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:27:55 +0000

The offenses of sex offenders are represented by a heterogeneous population. Serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmers represent an extreme form of sex offenders by committing acts of necrophilia, cannibalism, torture, and murder for the purpose of sexual gratification. Other forms of illegal offenses and sex crime in sex offenders can include sexual abuse, downloading [...]

Psychosexual dysfunctions in Italy

Albert — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:10:16 +0000

The story of Italian society reconciling its history and values with psychosexual dysfunctions that are antithetical to its honorable reputation is most fascinating. In 1970, Academy Award winning director Bernardo Bertolucci directed The Conformist. The film deals with Marcello Clerici, an Italian whose homosexuality creates a pathological obsession to be vindicated by overzealously supporting the [...]

Pain and Pleasure: Masochism as a psychosexual disorder

Albert — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:29:29 +0000

Anytime one thinks they can apply a universal truth to humanity, it is bound to be contradicted. For example, pain and suffering is believed to be negative because they are not pleasurable. Enter the psychosexual disorder known as masochism. Sexual masochism has long captured the imaginations of psychologists and the curious. Sexual masochism is the [...]

Relationship Factors in Psychosexual Disorders

Albert — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:43:14 +0000

Psychosexual disorders undermine not only the person who suffer from them personally, but also the people in their everyday relationships too. Whether family, friends, or, particularly, their lover – psychosexual disorders can have such a power that, if not dealt with properly, can severe the most precious relationships. An individual’s psychosexual disorders, such as sexual [...]

Cultural Factors in Psychosexual Disorders

Albert — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:39:36 +0000

While diversity is a trait to be celebrated in this world, a lack of understanding of different customs and beliefs can lend itself to awkward situations if approached without care. Where one culture may be eager to discuss some subjects openly, others avoid those and view them as taboos. In no other aspect of life [...]

Symptoms of Psychosexual Disorder

Albert — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:34:03 +0000

Contemporary society – or perhaps human nature- works in such a way that accountability or individual failures rarely rest on the shoulders of those who deserve it. Mistakes cannot be the fault of the individual; it must be your neighbor, the government, the stress caused by others, or the stars above that work against you. [...]

Psychosexual Disorders in Adolescence

Albert — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:25:23 +0000

Perhaps no time is more complicated in a person’s life than adolescence. Adolescence serves as the physical and mental transition period from childhood to early adulthood and is marked by plenty of changes. From the hormone-fueled mood swings to the hormone-fueled sexual intrigue, the developments that enhance and threaten adolescence can have a profound effect [...]

Psychosexual Disorders in Women

Albert — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:17:24 +0000

Mainstream media and popular imagination seem to suggest that only one gender monopolizes the field of sexual perversion, debauchery, and disorders. While perhaps the male gender has an iron grip on sexual dysfunctions in popular imagination, in reality, females are increasingly joining their male counterparts in opening up about their own sexual dysfunctions and exploring [...]

Psychosexual Disorders in Men

Albert — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:09:03 +0000

As Governor Mark Sanford staged a press conference to confess to an extramarital affair in June 2009, the sensationalist juice of the story was only matched by its banality. Sex has always been viewed as not just a part of politics, but the fact that it was a male who engaged in it made it [...]

Treatment of Psychosexual Disorders

Albert — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:56:06 +0000

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” the old cliché goes. Medicine continues to find an answer to the many diseases that have hammered the human species through time. Though by no means is it to suggest that discovering remedies to diseases such as malaria is an easy task, sicknesses caused by the external environment do [...]

Psychosexual Disorders

Albert — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:44:57 +0000

Popular imagination paints an abstract picture concerning the sexual appetites of the opposite sex: Whereas men have an insatiable thirst for erotic play, females are supposedly, at the least, better at controlling such urges. While such generalizations are not entirely wrong, it can be argued that what may partially contribute to the perpetuation of such [...]