Sexual perversion

Sexual perversions (sexual perversions, paraphilia) - violations of the orientation of the sexual desire or the conditions for its satisfaction. These include polorolevye perversions, caused by a distorted (pathological) stereotype of sex-role behavior. These include sexual satisfaction, received under the condition of cruel treatment of a partner (sadism) or, conversely, the suffering caused to them (masochism). Another group consists of sexual perversions in which sexual attraction is directed at an inadequate object or normal sexual activity with a partner is replaced by surrogate actions: sexual attraction to oneself (narcissism), animals (zoophilia, bestiality), corpses (necrophilia), relatives (incest) . Perversions can manifest themselves in the desire to possess some object (fetish) belonging to another person and causing sexual arousal (fetishism), in particular, the attraction to footwear (reti), the desire to wear clothes of the opposite sex (transvestism). With this form, the attraction to puppets or statues (pygmalionism) is bordered. Sexual perversions can manifest themselves in committing such surrogate actions as exposure to strangers (exhibitionism), contemplation of intimate relations, sexual organs, urination or defecation (voyeurism). The third group includes perversions, in which sexual attraction is directed at persons of "inappropriate" age: children (pedophilia), adolescents (ephebophilia) and the elderly (gerontophilia). The fourth group of populist perversions includes attraction to persons of their gender (homosexuality of men - uranism, sodomy, pederasty and female - lesbian love, sapphism).

The feeling of belonging to the opposite sex with the desire to change the passport floor and perform a surgical correction (transsexualism) does not apply to sexual perversions and in certain cases can receive appropriate legal recognition.

Individual sexual perversions can be combined with normal sexual desire (for example, with bisexualism), and with other perversions in a wide variety of combinations. Sexual perversions are characterized by qualitative changes in sexual desire and behavior with partial or complete substitution of normal sexual life for them.

Etiology, pathogenesis. Existing theories (genetic, neurogenic, neuroendocrine, conditioned-reflex, psychoanalytic, etc.) explain only individual links in the integral mechanism of the formation of sexual perversion. Sexual desire is formed in the process of postnatal ontogenesis and is determined by the interaction of socio-psychological factors and biological soil, which is often deformed in the prenatal period. The pathogenesis of sexual perversions is most fully explained by the dysontogenetic concept, which considers perversions as the result of distortions of individual psychosexual development in postnatal ontogenesis. Violations of the sexual differentiation of brain structures during the period of intrauterine development can lead to transsexualism and deformation of sex-role behavior. Personal characteristics or psychological disorders, the influence of the microsocial environment, the distortions of sex-role behavior, and the violation of the rates and timing of psychosexual development (premature or delayed sexuality formation) are the main factors that result in the sexual interaction of sexual perversions.

The treatment of sexual perversions presents significant difficulties and is advisable only if the patient has a solid setting for therapy. It should be long and complex, include a variety of psychotherapeutic techniques and focus not only on the repayment of pathological attraction and the formation of adequate, but also to overcome communicative disorders and training communication with persons of the opposite sex. With the purpose of temporary easing of attraction, neuroleptics can be used. Hormonal drugs affect only the intensity of attraction, without affecting its direction, and therefore their use can aggravate the severity of the disorder.

The forecast in most cases is doubtful. Prevention of perversions includes the prevention of various pathogenic influences contributing to the distortion of sexual desire, and is carried out in three ways: first, early diagnosis and timely treatment of children and adolescents with mental diseases that cause premature psychosexual development; Secondly, from the earliest age, prevention of communication disorders in children; Third, the prevention of corruption and seduction, including access to pornographic publications.

Under Soviet law, male homosexuality is criminally punishable. Other sexual perversions are not envisaged by special articles of the criminal code, but may be subject to articles punishing torture, sexual intercourse with minors, depraved acts, hooliganism.