A paraphilia is a condition in which one derives sexual arousal from objects, situations, or individuals that are otherwise viewed by society as abnormal, distasteful, and extreme. They are more prevalent in men than in women, and tend to emerge during adolescence. Paraphilias are discerned by a chronic fixation with the object or behavior to the point of being dependent on it for sexual gratification. Below is a list of paraphilias.Â
Abasiophilia - People with impaired mobility
Acrotomophilia - People with amputations
Agalmatophilia - Statues, mannequins and immobility
Algolagnia - Pain, particularly involving an erogenous zone; differs from masochism as there is a biologically different interpretation of the sensation rather than a subjective interpretation
Andromimetophilia - Trans men
Anililagnia - Attraction by young men to older women
Anthropophagolagnia - Raping and then cannibalizing another person.
Anthropophagy - Ingesting human flesh
Apotemnophilia - Being an amputee
Asphyxiophilia - Being asphyxiated or strangled
Attraction to disability - People with one or more physical disabilities.
Autagonistophilia - Being on stage or on camera
Autassassinophilia - Being in life-threatening situations
Autoandrophilia - A biological female imagining herself as a male
Autoerotic asphyxiation- Self-induced asphyxiation, sometimes to the point of near unconsciousness
Autogynephilia - A biological male imagining himself as a female
Auto-haemofetishism - Bleeding oneself (does not involve ingestion of blood). Type of autovampirism.
Autonepiophilia - The image of one’s self in the form of an infant.
Autopedophilia - The image of one’s self in the form of a child.
Autoplushophilia - The image of one’s self in the form of a plush or anthropomorphized animal
Autovampirism - The image of one’s self in the form of a vampire. Involves ingesting or seeing one’s own blood.
Autozoophilia - The image of one’s self in the form of an animal or anthropomorphized animal.
Biastophilia - Raping a person.
Chremastistophilia - Being robbed or held up
Chronophilia - Partners of a widely differing chronological age
Coprophilia - Feces; also known as scat, scatophilia or fecophilia
Dacryphilia - Tears or crying
Diaper fetishism - Diapers; considerable overlap with paraphilic infantilism
Eproctophilia - Flatulence
Erotic asphyxiation - Asphyxia of oneself or others
Erotophonophilia - Murder, often of strangers (also known as dacnolagnomania).
Exhibitionism - Exposing one’s genitals to unsuspecting and nonconsenting others
Feederism - Eating, feeding, and weight gain.
Formicophilia - Being crawled on by insects
Forniphilia - Turning a human being into a piece of furniture
Frotteurism - Rubbing against a non-consenting person
Gerontophilia - Elderly people
Gynandromorphophilia/Gynemimetophilia - Transsexual or transgender women
Hematolagnia - Drinking or looking at blood
Heterophilia - Idealization of heterosexuality and/or people who are “straight-acting,” especially by non-heterosexual people.
Homeovestism - Wearing clothing emblematic of one’s own sex
Hoplophilia - Firearms, guns
Hybristophilia - Criminals, particularly for cruel or outrageous crimes
Infantophilia - Pedophilia with a focus on children less than five years old, a recently suggested term that is not in general use
Kleptophilia - Stealing; also known as kleptolagnia
Klismaphilia - Enemas, arousal and enjoyment in receiving, administering, or both
Lactophilia - Breast milk
Liquidophilia - Immersing genitals in liquids
Lingophilia - ultra-oral, any sexual use of tongue, licking lips, vulva, exposed parts of body
Macrophilia - Giant beings; the imagined growth of beings
Mazophilia - Highly atypical sexual interest focused on female breasts.
Masochism - Suffering or humiliation; being beaten, bound or otherwise abused
Mechanophilia - Cars or other machines; also “mechaphilia.”
Menophilia - Menstruation
Morphophilia - Particular body shapes or sizes
Mysophilia - Dirtiness, soiled or decaying things
Narratophilia - Obscene words
Objectophilia - Specific inanimate objects
Oculolinctus - Licking the eyeballs
Oculophilia - Eyes and activities directly relating to and/or involving the eyes.
Voyeurism - does not meet classification for this term.
Omorashi - Arousal from having a full bladder and/or wetting oneself, or from seeing someone else experiencing a full bladder and/or wetting themselves
Paraphilic infantilism - Dressing or being treated like a baby, also known as autonepiophilia or “adult baby syndrome”; considerable overlap with diaper fetishism
Partialism - Specific, non-genital body parts
Pedophilia - Prepubescent children, also spelled paedophilia; often confused with hebephilia, ephebophilia, and pederasty
Peodeiktophilia - Exposing one’s penis
Pedovestism - Dressing like a child
Pictophilia - Pornography or erotic art, particularly pictures
Piquerism - Piercing the flesh of another person, most commonly by stabbing or cutting the body with sharp objects
Plushophilia - Stuffed toy animals (Plushies).
Pygophilia - Buttocks, as in a highly atypical sexual interest focused on the buttocks.
Raptophilia - Committing rape, possibly consensual rape fantasy
Sadism - Inflicting pain on others
Salirophilia - Soiling or dirtying others
Sexual fetishism - Nonliving objects
Somnophilia - Sleeping or unconscious people
Sthenolagnia - Muscles and displays of strength
Stigmatophilia - Body piercings and tattoos
Symphorophilia - Witnessing or staging disasters such as car accidents
Telephone scatologia - Obscene phone calls, particularly to strangers; also known as telephonicophilia and scatophilia
Teratophilia - Deformed or monstrous people[
Toucherism - Touching an unsuspecting, non-consenting person with the hand
Transvestic fetishism - Wearing clothes associated with the opposite sex; also known as transvestism
Transvestophilia - A transvestite sexual partner
Troilism - Cuckoldism, watching one’s partner have sex with someone else, possibly without the third party’s knowledge
Urolagnia - Urination, particularly in public, on others, and/or being urinated on. Also referred to as “water sports”
Vorarephilia - The idea of one person or creature eating or being eaten by another; usually swallowed whole, in one piece; also known as vore
Voyeurism - Watching others while naked or having sex, generally without their knowledge; also known as scopophilia or scoptophilia
Wet and messy fetishism - Messy situations, including, but not limited to, being pied, gunged or covered in mud
Zoosadism - Inflicting pain on or seeing animals in pain
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