What is another word for sexual perversion?

Pronunciation: [sˈɛkʃuːə͡l pəvˈɜːʃən] (IPA)

Sexual perversion, often considered a taboo topic, encompasses a wide range of sexual behaviors that are viewed as deviant or abnormal by society. There are several synonyms to describe such behaviors, including paraphilia, sexual deviation, sexual deviancy, and sexual abnormality. Paraphilia refers to intense sexual fantasies or actions that revolve around atypical objects, activities, or situations. Sexual deviation and deviancy are used to describe sexual behaviors that deviates from accepted cultural and societal norms. Sexual abnormality encompasses a range of sexual behaviors that are outside of societal norms, with fetishes and BDSM often falling under this category. While these terms may be clinical in nature, it is important to approach any discussion of sexual perversion with sensitivity and respect.

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Famous quotes with Sexual perversion

  • Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
    Edward Dahlberg
  • "You'll never be wanted," [a draft board official] said, and thrust at me a smaller piece of paper. This described me as being incapable of being graded in grades A, B, etc., because I suffered from sexual perversion. When the story of my disgrace became one of the contemporary fables of Chelsea, a certain Miss Marshall said, "I don't much care for the expression 'suffering from.' Shouldn't it be 'glorying in'?"
    Quentin Crisp
  • Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?
    Colin Wilson
  • This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography -- and of "sexual perversion."
    Marquis de Sade
  • Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.
    Anton Chekhov

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