This post was written by Léna Nagy, Ph.D., researcher at the School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, and Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, ...

This unstructured review is based on a comprehensive literature search leading to a variety of selected studies that summarize the historical development of paraphilias. Firstly, paraphilias in ...

A study of individuals with paraphilic interests and paraphilic disorder in Hungary found that these individuals were much more likely to suffer from various sexual dysfunctions compared to ...

Sexual masochism disorder is a paraphilic disorder, which involves recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors that are distressing or disabling and have the potential to ...