The Paraphilia Research Archive is a public, living library of books, papers, and research on paraphilia, atypical sexuality, and the broader social and psychological contexts that shape them.
I built this archive because I kept running into the same problem: information disappearing. Studies quietly taken down, texts harder to access, entire lines of inquiry treated as too dangerous or too taboo to remain visible. Over the past several years, as cultural attitudes around sex and the deviant have hardened, it has become increasingly difficult to find nuanced, evidence-based material in one place.
This archive exists to preserve that knowledge and keep it accessible to researchers, survivors, and anyone trying to understand rather than react.
I am not a neutral institution. I am a person who came to this work through lived experience. After surviving sexual abuse throughout childhood and into adulthood, I found myself unable to accept explanations rooted only in disgust or moral panic. I wanted to understand the mechanisms, the patterns, the realities, the why. That search led me deep into the trenches of academic literature, and eventually into collecting and preserving it so others wouldn't have to start from scratch the way I did.
I have not read every text housed in the archive. I may not agree with every single one, and some may be out of date. Preservation and access come first. This is a library, not a canon.
What I believe (and what guides this project) is simple:
Knowledge reduces harm
Precision matters more than panic
Attraction is not the same thing as action
People are accountable for what they do, not for the mere fact of their inner landscape
Research consistently shows that stigma and forced silence make prevention harder, not easier. When entire groups are treated as irredeemable abstractions rather than human beings, we lose the ability to intervene early, support accountability, and build systems that actually protect people.
My politics are rooted in liberation and material reality. The struggles around sexual stigma intersect with feminism, queer liberation, disability justice, anti-carceral thought, youth rights, and broader fights against social marginalization. None of these movements exist in isolation, and neither does the work of understanding sexuality.
This archive is not about sensationalism, and it is not about excusing harm. It is about refusing a world where curiosity is treated as complicity and where ignorance is mistaken for virtue.
Paraphiles are people. Survivors are people. The public deserves accurate information.
If we want a world with less abuse, less secrecy, and more accountability, then access to knowledge is not optional, it is foundational.
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About the Archivist
