RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Multiple Paraphilic Diagnoses among Sex Offenders
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 153
OP 168
VO 16
IS 2
A1 Abel, Gene G.
A1 Becker, Judith V.
A1 Cunningham-Rathner, Jerry
A1 Mittelman, Mary
A1 Rouleau, Joanne-L.
YR 1988
UL http://jaapl.org/content/16/2/153.abstract
AB The psychiatric literature suggests that paraphiliacs can be expected to participate in only one type of deviant sexual behavior. Using self-reports gathered with assured confidentiality from 561 nonincarcerated paraphiliacs, we discovered that most paraphiliacs have had significant experience with as many as ten different types of deviant sexual behavior without regard, in many cases, to gender, age, and familial relationship of the victim. The relevance of these findings to our understanding of paraphiliacs and their treatment is discussed.