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Paraphilias

Sadomasochism, Fetishism, Transvestism and Transsexuality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. R. W. Christie Brown
J. R. W. Christie Brown*
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital, London SE5 8AZ
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Particular instances of sexual deviation can not be discussed sensibly without first considering certain general issues.

The first of these is the question of definition. The notion of what constitutes abnormal sexual behaviour has changed in the course of history and indeed its boundaries have expanded and contracted at different times. What emerges from the history of the concept is that it has been defined by the social and moral climate of the time and indeed sexual deviance can be seen, for the most part, as a social rather than a medical concept (Bancroft, 1974).

Type
Symposium on Sexual Deviation
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 143 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 227 - 231
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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