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- noun Plural form of
paraphilia .
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Examples
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Most psychiatrists and psychologists I have spoken with — even those who specialize in paraphilias — have never heard of apotemnophilia.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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Most psychiatrists and psychologists I have spoken with — even those who specialize in paraphilias — have never heard of apotemnophilia.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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The sexual preferences described here are commonly known as paraphilias, and many remain in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as mental illnesses today.
Sex Geek 2008
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Further, Hastings 'statement was made not as a legal analysis but in noting "what we have to put up with in the Rules Committee" by reading an amendment that a laundry list of specific "paraphilias" to be exempted from the bill that the committee voted down.
Terry Krepel: Right-Wing Media Lies About the Hate-Crimes Bill 2009
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THE LIE: The bill protects pedophiles and all 547 forms of sexual deviancy or "paraphilias" listed by the American Psychological Association.
Terry Krepel: Right-Wing Media Lies About the Hate-Crimes Bill 2009
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The defense meanwhile has continued to stipulate that the prosecution may use anti-porn activist Dr. MaryAnn Layden to testify on the issue of "paraphilias," and to rebut Dr. Nair's scientific value testimony.
AVN Industry News 2010
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House and is being awaited by President Obama - after a Democrat confirmed it would protect "all 547 forms of sexual deviancy or 'paraphilias' listed by the American Psychiatric Association."
Latest Articles 2009
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As the committee had also refused to define or restrict the definition of the term "sexual orientation," one Democrat representative lauded the bill as granting heightened federal protection for all of the 547 "paraphilias" or sexual aberrations documented by the American Psychological Association.
RenewAmerica 2009
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House and is being awaited by President Obama - after a Democrat confirmed it would protect "all 547 forms of sexual deviancy or 'paraphilias' listed by the American Psychiatric Association."
Latest Articles 2009
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"all 547 forms of sexual deviancy or 'paraphilias' listed by the American Psychiatric Association."
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