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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. 

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.

Capnolagnia - Smoking.

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

Dendrophilia - Trees

Emetophilia - Vomit

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

Maschalagnia - Armpits

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.”

Melolagnia - Music

Menophilia - Menstruation

Metrophilia - Poetry

Morphophilia - Particular body shapes or sizes

Mucophilia - Mucus

Mysophilia - Dirtiness, soiled or decaying things

Narratophilia - Obscene words

Nasophilia - Noses

Necrophilia - Corpses

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.

Olfactophilia - Smells

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

Podophilia - Feet

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.

Pyrophilia - Fire

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

Sophophilia - Learning

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

Toxophilia - Archery

Transvestic fetishism - Wearing clothes associated with the opposite sex; also known as transvestism

Transvestophilia - A transvestite sexual partner

Trichophilia - Hair

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”

Vampirism - Blood

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

Zoophilia - Animals

“Thanks a lot, society, for railroading my ass”  

 — Aileen Wournos

“ Yes, I do have remorse, but I’m not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I’ve always wondered myself why I don’t feel more remorse”  

 — Jeffrey Dahmer

“The more I looked at people, the more I hated them” 

— Charles Starkweather

“People say ‘Ted Bundy didn’t show any emotion, there must be something in there.’ I showed emotion. You know what people said? ‘See, he really can get violent and angry.’”

— Ted Bundy

“I am sorry for only two things. These two things are I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life-time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damed human race.”

— Carl Panzram

“You got to realize; you’re the Devil as much as you’re God”

— Charles Manson

“Killing became the same thing as having sex”

— Henry Lee Lucas

“When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part wants to be real nice and sweet, and the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick”

— Ed Kemper

“Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I’m an amateur”

— Jack the Ripper

“I didn’t want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them”

— David Berkowitz

“A clown can get away with murder“

— John Wayne Gacy

“If anything goes wrong, you die first”

— Richard Chase

“I was born with the devil in me…”

— H. H. Holmes

“We’ve all got the power in our hands to kill, but most people are afraid to use it. The ones who aren’t afraid, control life itself.”

— Richard Ramirez

“Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life”

— Albert Fish

“I have written to the Home Office and the Parole Board to say I do not wish to be considered for parole in 1990, and my own belief is that I shall probably remain in prison until I die”

— Myra Hindley

The police shall never catch me, because I have been too clever for them.

“It was the strangest experience. I mean being there after Jessie had been killed. I could still smell her blood. Sunlight was streaming into the room and you could see particles of dust in the golden beams of sunlight. […] The line between life and death right there in front of me. Intense. When she went down, I saw it all in slow motion.”