The paraphilic behavior such as the Sado-Masochism becomes more discussed and explicitly shown through the means of mass media. The integration of Sadomasochistic content in the cinematography and literature increases social awareness of this sexual behavior. The social bias around Sado-Masochism diminishes with the time what makes this practice more common and acceptable among the couples. There are certain subtypes of the sadomasochism which differ by severity, intensity, and thematics. Sado-Masochistic behaviors are caused by multiple causes which vary in every person. Sado-masochism, despite all social stigmas and stereotypes, is to certain extent common practice for many couples. The moderate types of sadomasochism represent the
Alfred Kinsey stated in his 1953 nonfiction book Sexual Behavior in the Human Female that 12% of females and 22% of males reported having an erotic response to a sadomasochistic story(direct quote Wikipedia). The Australian study performed in 2001 showed that 1.8% of people engaged in sexual activities had practiced BSDM at least once. On the other hand, the 1990 Kinsey Institute’s report showed that 5-10% of the sexually active population engaged in so-masochistic activities(Wikipedia). The difference between data obtained in Australia and the USA can be explained by the difference in the research methods and samples being studied. Canadian study performed on undergraduate students showed that about 65% of men have sadistic fantasies and about 22-39% integrated this fantasies into their sexual practices. The sadistic fantasies of males responded to the female desire of receiving some brutality from the partner. “German Institut für rationale Psychologie found that about 2/3 of the interviewed women stated a desire to be at the mercy of their sexual partners, 69% admitted to fantasies dealing with sexual submissiveness, 42% stated interest in explicit BDSM techniques(Direct quote from Wikipedia).” Numerous of other studies showed that most of the females enjoy experiencing the force for themselves what is the part of normal sexual fantasies
The people interviewed showed different reasons that led them to the sadomasochism, diversity of reasons does not build to a certain pattern so there is no specific reason that causes sado-masochism(Wikipedia). “Attachment, family configuration, and childhood abuse have all been explored in relation to sadomasochism.” However, there was no study that completely supported the connection of the traumatic experiences in the childhood and the sadomasochistic behaviors. The majority of people engaged in BDSM activities come from ordinary families with no history of abuse or any other traumatic experiences(article). The studies conducted by the different researchers revealed contradictory results. The study conducted by the Breslow et al in 1986 proved that only 5.4% of people engaged in BDSM activity have a history of an abuse while the Nordling et al in 2000 found the higher amount of people(while the study conducted by Nodding et al in 2000 showed the higher number of people. The connection between abuse experience and sadomasochistic behavior is inconsistent due to the different perception of pain. In a case of sadomasochism, the pain is associated with the pleasure while people experienced abuse link it with painful memories(article). The another possible cause of the sadomasochistic behavior comes from the suppression of
Robert William “Willie” Pickton is currently serving a life sentence for the second degree murder of six British Columbian women. Although convicted for the murders of six victims, physical and forensic evidence for thirty-three women was uncovered at Pickton’s Port Coquitlam pig farm which served as the crime scene for his murders. Numerous other missing women, mostly marginalized prostitutes with chronic drug addiction, from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside area remain unaccounted for. It is not unreasonable to assume that they too, met the same disturbing fate as the other murder victims. Pickton’s modus operandi for the serial murders was the same; he would prowl the drug and poverty ridden Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver looking for potential victims, take the victims back to his Port Coquitlam pig farm, and then sexually abuse, torture, and murder them before mutilating and disposing their bodies. Most disturbingly, the victim’s remains were allegedly fed to the pigs on his farm, which were then slaughtered with the meat given out to associates of Pickton or to visitors of the farm (The Pickton Trial, CBC.ca/news).
Wendy Doniger and Sudir Kakar call the sexually violent Kama Sutra ‘bright and shiny,’ but when people hear the words ‘bright and shiny’ sexual violence is not usually paired together with those terms. This idea of ‘bright and shiny’ contrasts the idea of intercourse being ‘dark and heavy.’ Sexual violence can be relatively cheerful though it lacks emotional eroticism. Emotional eroticism is not so constrained and is more focused around the idea of love. The violence used during intercourse helps one to obtain continuity through physical eroticism. Bataille said, “Physical eroticism has in any case a heavy, sinister quality. It holds on to the separateness of the individual in a rather selfish and cynical
The personification of sadomasochistic ideals in the novel comes from Martin Vanger, head of the Vanger companies and, unknown to everyone, a serial rapist and murderer. For example, Vanger may very well have felt that his father, Gottfried Vanger, by raping him as a child, had forced him to not only become the man he became, but to accept his “fate.” Stekel and Brink also explained why many serial sadomasochists kill their victims, something he labeled the death clause. The death clause explained the idea of “the parapathic amalgamation of death and normal intercourse” (Stekel and Brink 2: 246). That is, that the algolagnic behavior is so ingrained into their mind, that they can only derive normal sexual pleasure through the ultimate pain one can inflict, death. The death clause is something that Vanger seemed to very much experience, and it would explain not only his torture chamber, but why he killed almost every girl he raped.
Ted Bundy’s style of killing describes sexual sadism. Sexual sadism is the intense sexually arousal by the thought or act of inflicting suffering on others by dominating, restraining, blindfolding, cutting, strangling, mutilating, or even killing the victim (Comer, 2011). This condition would fall under Axis I because it causes significant impairment.
Through television and movies, the fundamental mediums of promoting the ideas of sexual immorality, the secular ideals of popular culture are spread.Sexual natured television, such as shows like Desperate Housewives and movies such as Unfaithful, explore the world of adultery. These portrayals of common people committing these acts of indecency are more than just simple fiction stories, influencing ...
In the article “An Anthropological Look at Human Sexuality” the authors, Patrick Gray and Linda Wolfe speak about how societies look at human sexuality. The core concept of anthology is the idea of culture, the systems of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors people acquire as a member of society. The authors give an in depth analysis on how human sexuality is looked at in all different situations.
Governed under the principles of male supremacy and superiority, it is comprehensible as to why female sexuality has been coined a “dangerous mechanism”
For example, In the case of Jacob, an ordinary guy who faces many obstacles including the focus of his desire for women 's feet. It seems impossible to define normal sexual behaviors because sexual behaviors that are considered normative vary within the cultural context of the culture and other factors. For instance, in Jacob 's case, there seems to be a deviation involving the object of his sexual attraction. Jacob 's intense sexual desire to touch, to gaze upon, and to suck women 's feet displays an inconsistency to what contemplates as normal sexual desire and behavior among man in his cultural context. For instance, when comparing Jacob 's sexual desire of women 's feet to what was considered normal among men, which were breast, legs, buttocks, and genitals. It seems that there is a distinct deviation in Jacob 's desires from the norm. To further expand, wanting to press his cock against women 's feet demonstrates the intensity of having a fetishistic disorder. Jacob 's erotic distortions made him feel hideous and mortified by his longing. Jacob meets the full criteria for a fetishistic disorder. His sexual arousal is focused on nongenital body parts, which is manifested by fantasies, urges, and behaviors. Jacob 's fetish is causing him significant distress and impairment in social, occupational, and other important areas of functioning. For instance, Jacob no longer engages in sexual intercourse with his wife, and thus, his marriage has been
Scopophilia is taking other people as objects, subjecting them to a controlling and curious gaze by allowing the spectator to look into a secret diegetic world, a projection of desire onto the former. For example, Peeping Tom (1960) stimulates a direct connection with the audience between eye and phallus, through the form of a camera wielded by protagonist and serial killer Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm). He is equip...
Medicalization describes the shift in authority concerning abnormal human conditions. Quirks previously seen as by-products of maturation began to see heavy examination and were classified under medical terms. As a result, the past few decades have seen an obscene number of compulsions and disorders deemed medical conditions, further exacerbating the unnecessary institutionalization of many harmless irregularities. This string coincides with the growing popularity of sex addiction and the debate over its inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The mere thought of such a neurotic desire potentially joining the DSM alongside major mental and learning disorders epitomizes the depths to which society has sunk in recognition of truly straining abnormalities. The medicalization of sex addiction demonstrates the lengths at which medical authority will go to inject another fabricated disease into the blood of society.
In today’s heterosexual and patriarchal society sex and sexual desires revolve around men, and Hoagland sets out seven patterns showing how this is the case. Sex is thought of as a “powerful and uncontrollable urge” and male sexuality therefore is a basic component to male health, sexual acts show male conquest and domination, sexual freedom gives men total access to and over women, rape is, by this logic, natural and women who resist a man’s advances are “‘frigid’”, sex involves losing control and sexual desire, when described as erotic, “involves a death wish (eros)”. The bottom line is that in today’s heterosexual and patriarchal society sex is all about men having a natural power over women; sex involves a total loss of control which creates a split between reason and emotion since being in control is a matter of reason controlling emotions, “we tend to believe that to be safe we must be rational and in control but to...
The preferences of BDSM participants may differ from each other greatly: while some are only intersted in a limited range of BDSM activities, which are not necessarily physically harmful but are humiliating in some way, vebrbally for example, others may be attracted to broad and even potentially dangerous ones. Roles that can be distinguished in BDSM sessions are different as well and can be "switched". Although BDSM is thought to be a form of erotic behavior, most BDSM practitioners describe BDSM activities first of all as a source of sensory pleasure and not so much as a source for erotic
BDSM, a three part acronym which stands for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism (Oxford Dictionary, 2014) has seen a drastic increase in popular culture in the last twenty years (Weiss, p: 104). Since it being brought into the public eye with the Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, BDSM has predominantly been portrayed as a sexual deviance that only those who are sexually violent or those who are mentally unsound participate in. Images of BDSM have existed in popular culture for quite some time. Wearing cuffs, collars and leather are often found in both fashion and mainstream media so much so that many who purchase and wear them may not be aware of their significance to BDSM.
Paraphilia has evolved as a term generally referenced as sexually deviant behavior to a broader term and divided into a disorder by the DSM-5. Paraphilia’s are often misconstrued as sexually deviant behavior that is misunderstood by the general public. In this paper, I will attempt to have a better grasp of what a paraphilia is, how to treat paraphilia from a therapeutic standpoint and attempt to discern when a paraphilia may need additional referrals and/or treatment. This paper will also examine the difference between a paraphilia that may be treated through cognitive behavioral therapy and paraphilic disorders, in which distress is found and may need further intensive treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one method of psychotherapy