DSM-IV: Sexual Masochism
Individuals with this paraphilia use sexual fantasies,
urges, or behaviors involving being beaten, humiliated, bound or tortured to enhance or
achieve sexual excitement.
Diagnostic criteria for 302.83 Sexual Masochism
(cautionary statement)
A. Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the act (real, not simulated) of being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer.
B. The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Reprinted with permission from the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth Edition. Copyright 1994 American
Psychiatric Association
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Also: masochist, sadomasochism, Sadism
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