Biastophilia

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Biastophilia (from Greek biastes, "rapist" + -philia) and its Latin-derived synonym raptophilia (from Latin rapere, "to seize"), also paraphilic rape, [1] is a paraphilia in which sexual arousal is dependent on, or is responsive to, the act of assaulting an unconsenting person, especially a stranger. [2] [3] Some dictionaries consider the terms synonymous, [4] while others distinguish raptophilia as the paraphilia in which sexual arousal is responsive to actually raping the victim. [5]

The source of the arousal in these paraphilias is the victim's terrified resistance to the assault, [6] and in this respect it is considered to be a form of sexual sadism. [1]

Under the name paraphilic coercive disorder, this diagnosis was proposed for inclusion in DSM-5. [7] This diagnosis, under the name paraphilic rapism, was proposed and rejected in the DSM-III-R. [8] It has been criticized because of the impossibility of reliably distinguishing between paraphilic rapists and non-paraphilic rapists, and because of this diagnosis, under the term Paraphilia NOS (not otherwise specified), non-consent had been used in Sexually Violent Person/Predator commitment. [9]

A standard concept in Czechoslovakian sexology is pathologic sexual aggressivity instead. This term is strongly distinguished from sadism. [10] [11] This disorder is understood as a coordination anomaly of the sexual motivation system (SMS), a "courtship disorder" according to Kurt Freund or displacement paraphilia by John Money, or a missing segment of SMS. [12]

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  2. ↑ Corsini, Raymond J. (2002). The Dictionary of Psychology. Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge. p. p. 109. ISBN   1-58391-328-9. OCLC   48932974.
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  5. ↑ Holmes, Ronald M. (5 November 2001). Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. p. p. 247. ISBN   0-7619-2417-5. OCLC   48883594.
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  8. ↑ Thomas K. Zander. Inventing diagnosis for civil commitment of rapists. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 36, 459–469.
  9. ↑ Frances, Allen. 2010. Opening Pandora's Box: The 19 Worst Suggestions For DSM5. Psychiatric Times Feb. 11, 2010. Archived from the original
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