Editing Paraphilia (section)

== Lists of medically recognized paraphilias ==
The [[DSM]] lists eight major paraphilias. According to him, for a paraphilia to be diagnosed, the object of the deviance must be the sole source of sexual gratification for a period of at least six months and must cause "significant clinical distress or handicap in the social, professional sphere. or other important functional areas ", or involve a violation of the consent of others2.
* Exhibitionism: the act of obtaining sexual pleasure by showing off (especially in public), in particular by showing one's genitals or by showing off during a sexual relationship, generally illegal, in public places not intended for this effect ;
* "Fetishism": use of non-sexual or non-living objects or parts of a person's body to achieve sexual arousal;
* "Frotteurism": sexual arousal obtained by rubbing against non-consenting people;
* '' 'Pedophilia' '': sexual attraction to prepubescent or peripuberal children;
* '' 'Sadism' '': pleasure obtained by inflicting pain or humiliation;
* '' 'Masochism' '': pleasure obtained by undergoing pain or humiliation;
* '' 'Fetishist transvestism' '': sexual attraction for clothes of the opposite sex;
* "Voyeurism": sexual pleasure obtained by observing other people, especially in their intimate relationships, when they are observed without their knowledge in a private place;
* The '' 'vincilagnia' '': sexual arousal obtained by the restraint (bondage);
* '' 'Self-Bondage' '': sexual arousal by restraint (bondage) without a partner;
* Other rare paraphilias are grouped under the heading Other unspecified paraphilias: '' 'telephone scatology' '' (obscene telephone calls); '' 'necrophilia' '' (corpses); '' 'partialism' '' (exclusive fetishism for one part of the body); the '' '[[zoophilia]]' '' (or [[bestiality]]), attraction to animals; '' 'coprophilia' '' (faeces); the '' 'klysmaphilie' '' (enemas); '' urophilia '' '(urine); '' emetophilia '' '(vomited). The list is not exhaustive.

Note: Homosexuality, that is, sexual attraction to an individual of the same sex, was considered a paraphilia by the [[DSM]] until 1973.