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The courtship disorders.

K Freund, H Scher, S Hucker

    Archives of Sexual Behavior
    |October 1, 1983
    PubMed
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    This study found that individuals with paraphilias, such as exhibitionism and voyeurism, often engage in multiple related behaviors. This suggests a shared underlying disturbance across these sexual interests.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychiatry
    • Clinical Psychology
    • Forensic Psychology

    Background:

    • Paraphilias, including voyeurism, exhibitionism, toucheurism, frotteurism, and obscene telephone calling, are often considered in relation to a common underlying disturbance.
    • Clinical observations suggest a high degree of concomitance among these paraphilic activities.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the hypothesis that various paraphilias share a common etiological basis.
    • To assess the degree of overlap in behaviors among individuals diagnosed with specific paraphilias.
    • To objectively measure sexual arousal patterns in response to different erotic stimuli.

    Main Methods:

    • Part One involved frequency counts of patients engaging in multiple paraphilic behaviors.
    • Parts Two and Three utilized penile plethysmography to measure arousal responses to described voyeuristic and toucheuristic situations.

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  • Control groups were used for comparison in arousal response assessments.

    • Main Results:

    • A significant concomitance of paraphilic behaviors was observed in clinical populations.
    • Patients with paraphilias (excluding voyeurism) showed greater arousal to voyeuristic stimuli than controls, despite denials.
    • Exhibitionists displayed heightened arousal to toucheuristic stimuli compared to controls, even when denying such tendencies.

    Conclusions:

    • The findings support the hypothesis of a shared disturbance underlying multiple paraphilias.
    • Objective measures of sexual arousal reveal cross-stimulus responsiveness in individuals with paraphilias.
    • These results have implications for understanding the etiology and classification of paraphilic disorders.