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PARAPHILIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Abnormal sexual activity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("paraphilia" is a kind of...):
perversion; sexual perversion (an aberrant sexual practice)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paraphilia"):
exhibitionism; immodesty (the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals)
fetichism; fetishism (sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs))
paedophilia; pedophilia (a sexual attraction to children)
voyeurism (a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior)
zoophilia; zoophilism (a sexual attraction to animals)
paederasty; pederasty (sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner))
