Paraphilic coercive disorder

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Paraphilic coercive disorder, also paraphilic rape,[1] is a paraphilia in which sexual arousal is dependent on, or is responsive to, the act of sexually assaulting a nonconsenting person, especially a stranger.[2][3]

In Greek, the disorder is known as biastophilia (from biastes, "rapist" + -philia) and in Latin raptophilia (from Latin rapere, "to seize"). 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]

Type of sexual sadism

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 milder variation of sexual sadism.[1] Some scholar propose that paraphilic coercive disorders fall along an "agonistic continuum" with sexual sadism at the continuum's most extreme end.[7]

Inclusion as diagnosis in DSM and ICD

Paraphilic coercive disorder was proposed but rejected for inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition.[8] The diagnosis had also been rejected, under the name paraphilic rapism, for the DSM-III-R.[9] The diagnosis has been included, however, in the International Classification of Diseases as "other paraphilic disorder involving non-consenting individuals."[10]

It has been criticized because of the difficulty of reliably distinguishing between paraphilic rapists and non-paraphilic rapists. A similar diagnosis has been made under the term other specified paraphilic disorder, non-consent and used in sexually violent predator civil commitment proceedings.[11]

Definition in Czechoslovakia

A standard concept in Czechoslovak sexology is pathologic sexual aggressivity instead. This term is strongly distinguished from sadism.[12][13] 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.[14]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Ronald Blackburn, "The Psychology of Criminal Conduct: Theory, Research and Practice" (1993)ISBN 0471912956, p. 87
  2. ↑ Corsini, Raymond J. (2002). The Dictionary of Psychology. Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge. p. p. 109. ISBN 1-58391-328-9. OCLC 48932974.
  3. ↑ Flora, Rudy (2001). How to Work with Sex Offenders: A Handbook for Criminal Justice, Human Service, and Mental Health Professionals. New York: Haworth Clinical Practice Press. p. p. 91. ISBN 0-7890-1499-8. OCLC 45668958.
  4. ↑ Eric W. Hickey, "Encyclopedia of Murder & Violent Crime", ISBN 0-7619-2437-X (2003) p. 347
  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.
  6. ↑ Raymond J. Corsini "The Dictionary of Psychology", ISBN 1-58391-028-X (1999) p. 692
  7. ↑ D'Orazio, Dierdre; Flinton, Charles (May 3, 2021). "Diagnosing Sexual Sadism and Other Paraphilic Disorders on the Agonistic Continuum". In Craig, Leam; Bartels, Ross (eds.). Sexual Deviance: Understanding and Managing Deviant Sexual Interests and Paraphilic Disorders. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 117. doi:10.1002/9781119771401.ch7. ISBN 978-1119705833.
  8. ↑ "Proposed Revision | APA DSM-5". Archived from the original on 2010-04-17. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
  9. ↑ Thomas K. Zander. Inventing diagnosis for civil commitment of rapists. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 36, 459–469.
  10. ↑ "Paraphilic Disorders, Other paraphilic disorder involving non-consenting individuals". ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics. World Health Organization. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  11. ↑ Graham, Nicole; Calkins, Cynthia; Jeglic, Elizabeth (2025). "Other Specified Paraphilic Disorder: Patterns of Use in Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations". Sexual Abuse. 37 (3): 309–338. doi:10.1177/10790632241271086.
  12. ↑ Jaroslav Zvěřina: Patologická sexuální agresivita, Wikiskripta.eu, 2010–2011
  13. ↑ Petr Weiss: Klasifikace sexuálních deviací Archived 2014-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Společnost pro plánování rodiny a sexuální výchovu, sborník z kongresu Pardubice 2007
  14. ↑ Aleš Kolářský: Jak porozumět sexuálním deviacím : Teoretická východiska sexodiagnostiky – cesta k tvorbě náhledu a k realizaci esxuality v mezích zákona, Galén, Praha, 2008, ISBN 978-80-7262-504-8
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