Many people with sexual disorders may not realize that they have the condition. In fact, if not recognized and treated, sexual disorders can potentially endanger the safety of the sufferer's self or other people who become their sexual partners.
In the medical world, sexual disorders or deviant sexual behavior that appears repeatedly are called paraphilias.
Sexual behavior can be called deviant when a person's sexual desires and behavior involve a form of activity, object, person or object, or situation that generally does not cause erotic stimulation in other people in general.
People with sexual disorders may feel uncomfortable with the disorder they have, but they are often powerless to fight or change these desires.
In fact, some of them do not know how to avoid and overcome their sexual disorders, so that it can have an impact on the quality of life and their sexual life with their partners.
Recognizing the Types of Sexual Disorders
There are various types of paraphilic sexual disorders, including:
1. Pedophilia
People with pedophilia have fantasies, interests, or deviant sexual behavior toward young children, less than 13 years of age. Meanwhile, pedophile perpetrators who have a sexual interest in toddlers under the age of 5 years are called infantophiles.
This deviant sexual behavior includes inviting the child to see the perpetrator masturbating, inviting the child to be naked, touching the child's genital organs, or even engaging in sexual activities, such as oral sex or penetration with children.
2. Exhibitionism
Exhibitionism is behavior when someone often shows their genitals to strangers. This person has a tendency to want to surprise, scare, or impress others with their behavior. In fact, people who have this sexual disorder can also often be naked in public places.
Although usually not accompanied by further action, such as assault or sexual violence against others, there are times when people with this disorder dare to masturbate in public while showing their genitals.
3. Voyeurism
This is a sexual disorder when a person achieves sexual gratification by peering or observing people who are changing clothes, bathing, or engaging in sexual activities.
People who have this disorder are usually not interested in establishing sexual contact with the victim. They also usually will reach orgasm by masturbating while peeking. Some people who suffer from this sexual disorder may also be able to do stalking or stalking their sexual victims.
4. Forteurism
People with froteurism have a tendency to rub their genitals on the bodies of strangers, including in public places. This sexual disorder is most often found in men with an age range of 15-25 years with a personality that tends to be shy.
6. Fetishism
People with fetishism have a sexual desire for inanimate objects, such as women's underwear or shoes. Sexual desires of people with fetishism can be aroused by simply touching or using these objects.
This object is sometimes also used when having sex with other people. In fact, there are times when these objects can replace actual sexual relations with other people.
Fetishism is often confused with partialism. In fact, the two are different conditions. As already mentioned, fetishism is a sexual attraction to inanimate objects. Meanwhile, partialism is sexual attraction to certain body parts, such as the chest, buttocks, or legs of another person.
7. Transvestism
Transvestitism is a sexual disorder or perversion in which a person feels excited and sexually aroused when he dresses or wears clothes of the opposite sex. Transvestitis is more common in men than women.
In order not to be caught, some men who suffer from this disorder will use women's underwear under the clothes that are used every day.
8. Sexual masochism
People with masochism achieve sexual satisfaction when they are abused, either verbally or nonverbally, such as being bitten, tied up, or humiliated with harsh and degrading words. Masochism sufferers can even slash or burn themselves for satisfaction.
People who suffer from masochism disorder often look for partners who have sexual satisfaction by committing violence (sadism). Such sexual behavior is known as sadomasochism.
Usually, sadomasochistic partners engage in sexual activity with entanglements or bonds (bondage), spanking on the buttocks (spanking), or sexual simulation (scene), such as kidnapping or rape.
9. Sexual sadism
Sufferers of sexual sadism constantly have fantasies and derive sexual satisfaction from physically and psychologically abusing their partner, such as raping, torturing, or humiliating them.
By doing this behavior, the sufferer feels in control of the victim. Perpetrators of sadism that are too extreme can commit sexual and physical violence to violate the criminal law. Patients with this sexual disorder generally need to get treatment and monitoring from a psychiatrist.
10. Asphyxiophilia
People with asphyxia or erotic asphyxia will feel satisfied and can reach orgasm when they are strangled. Sufferers of this sexual disorder can strangle themselves or ask their partners to strangle them.
The act of strangulation can be done with the hands or certain items, such as scarves and clothes. In fact, some cover their heads with plastic bags to achieve the desired orgasm.
Asifficifolia is considered dangerous. The reason is, although not intending to commit suicide, this sexual activity can cause rupture of blood vessels in the face, shortness of breath, and even death.
Apart from those mentioned above, there are many other sexual disorders that can occur, for example necrophilia or sexual attraction to corpses and coprophilia or a sexual disorder in which the perpetrator feels aroused when he sees, touches, or even eats other people's feces.
Causes and How to Treat Sexual Disorders
Paraphilia is more common in men than women. Although the cause is unknown, there are several conditions that are thought to trigger paraphilia, including:
- Trauma in childhood, for example having experienced sexual harassment from others
- Difficulty expressing feelings and difficulty initiating relationships with other people
- Personality disorder
- Repeatedly getting pleasurable sexual activity against certain situations and objects, so that sexual deviations are formed in these situations and objects
Unfortunately, most cases of sexual disorders or paraphilias cannot be completely cured. The main goal of treating paraphilia patients is to limit and prevent the patient's sexual behavior so as not to endanger himself and others, especially his sexual partners.
In general, people who have paraphilias need to get treatment from psychologists and psychiatrists. To deal with sexual disorders, there are several steps that can be taken, namely:
- Counseling and psychotherapy, to help patients control sexual urges or impulses
- Administration of drugs, such as antidepressants and antiandrogen drugs, to control sexual desire
- Behavioral therapy, to treat deviant sexual behavior, or to treat other psychological problems that the patient may also suffer from, such as alcohol or drug abuse
Treating sexual disorders is very important to do. If not controlled, deviant sexual desires can even put the patient at risk for violence or sexual harassment against others in society.
Some sexual disorders, such as pedophilia, voyeurism, sadism, exhibitionism, and froteurism, can be criminalized, so sufferers of these conditions can be subject to criminal penalties if reported.
Therefore, to prevent unwanted things from happening, you should consult a psychologist or psychiatrist if you feel you have a sexual deviation or disorder.
