Paraphilia is a term designated in the 1920’s to describe an unusual sexual tendency or fetish that is atypical or strange. Sometimes it is an actual sexual act or form of intercourse, and other times it simply refers to a strange thing that people find arousing, such as getting an erection whenever you touch a stapler.
There is an enormous list of unimaginable fetishes that could be included on the master list of paraphilia, but the contents of this list would largely depend on what time period you were talking about. For example, in Victorian times, doggie style position, premarital sex, and female orgasm, would have all been considered behavior performed by paraphiliacs. In America and Europe, homosexuality was still on the paraphilia list until 1973.
Thankfully, we’ve come along way from Victorian England or 1970’s America. The list of potential strange and perverse sexual fetishes and sources of arousal include anything from crushing McDonalds hamburgers while a prostitute masturbates on the couch and watches (known as a crush fetish), to dipping your balls in a warm bowl of breast milk ( a combination of Lactophilia and Liquidophilia).
Most sexologists and psychologists would agree that Paraphilia is completely normal and healthy, as long as one’s fetishes don’t inflict harm on oneself or on others. Of course, that pretty much eliminates 80% of all quirky fetishes, so rather than explain them all, or condemn every paraphiliac, we will instead explain one or two strange fetishes that every person should be aware of for personal safety.
First of all, one should always be careful riding a bus or subway when they are extremely tired. Somnophilia is a fetish where the source of arousal is sleeping or unconscious people. Not to be confused with date rape (that’s just rape, not a fetish), somnophilia most often occurs on streetcars, buses, subways, park benches, the beach, and massage clinics. Generally, any place where people often doze off and take naps, there will always be someone just around the corner, watching and jerking off.
Another one people should be aware of, especially motorists, is Symphorophilia. With this fetish, the individual becomes sexually aroused by either witnessing, or staging disasters such as car accidents or fires. So next time you’re driving down the freeway and the woman next to you keeps blowing you kisses and sucking on her fingers, chances are she cut your breaks, or she’s going to side swipe you.
The most alarming form of paraphilia that everyone should be aware of is Vorarephilia, the desire to eat, or be eaten by, another person, usually swallowed whole in one single piece. There really is no warning sign, but try to avoid anyone serving you a bowl of butter and seasoning for dinner, because you might have yourself a Hannibal Lector fuck friend on your hands.
1. Gertrude thought that dirty talk and oral sex was a form of paraphilia. She was Mormon, so anything other than missionary was perverse.
2. Leanne couldn’t understand the term paraphilia, even after she was given the clearest definition possible. She’s just that dirty of a whore; everything goes.
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