Maria Denisa MARCHIȘ
Babes-Bolyai
University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
denisa_marchis_95@yahoo.com
International Journal of Advanced Studies in Sexology
Volume 1, 2019 | Issue 2, Pages 15-19 | Published online: 2019
Citation: Marchiș D. M. (2019) Sexual sadism disorder. Int J Advanced Studies in Sexology. Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 15-19. Sexology Institute of Romania.
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Abstract
Sexual sadism is defined as intense and recurrent sexual arousal as a result of
the physical or psychological suffering of a person who does not consent to
such acts. In order to meet the SSD diagnostic criteria, the person concerned
must have acted according to, or be strongly affected by, sadistic fantasies or
impulses (DSM-V; APA, 2013). Although it is one of the paraphilia that has
received the most interest in the scientific area, the disorder of sexual
sadism is a controversial subject and an underdiagnosed paraphylic disorder.
Keywords: sexual sadism, paraphilic disorders, DSM V.