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Paraphilia is the modern day psychiatric term for sexual perversion.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Paraphilias refer to intense, repetitive sexual urges, fantasies or behaviors where the sexual goal is an unusual situation, activity or object. This impairment can occur in any important aspect of an individual's life such as social, occupational, recreational or family. Paraphilias do not refer to the normal use of sexual fantasy, activity or objects to heighten sexual excitement where there is no distress or impairments. The most common signs of sexual activity which can be classified as paraphilias include, the inability to resist an impulse for the sexual act, the requirement for participation of non-consenting or under aged individuals, legal consequences, resulting sexual dysfunction, and interference with normal social relationships. A paraphiliac often has more than one paraphilia.