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2013 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The clinical threshold historically tied to the derogatory word “retarded” has been an IQ roughly two standard deviations below the population mean—about an IQ of 70 (sometimes cited as 70–75)—but mod...
Clinical literature treats sexual attraction to animals as a form of paraphilia that appears in the DSM under “Other Specified Paraphilic Disorder” when it causes distress or impairment; it is not a s...
Zoophilia is treated in psychiatric literature as a paraphilia or an example of an "other specified paraphilic disorder," but diagnostic criteria require recurrent, distressing, or impairing patterns ...
The literature presents a mixed picture: problematic or excessive pornography use is repeatedly associated with worse mental-health measures and relationship problems in cross-sectional and some longi...
Large-scale sex surveys typically define as atypical sexual attractions distinct from normophilic desires and measure them with multi-item self-report instruments that rate arousal and report behavior...
The defines as a pattern of recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving prepubescent children that meets specific duration, age, and functional-impact or behavior thr...