Paraphilia

Paraphilia is a word used in sociology and medicine. A paraphilia is when someone gets very sexually aroused by something considered unusual. Paraphilias often involve things or people who do not consent to being involved, or cannot consent.

When doctors talk about paraphilia, they usually mean one of the following, among other things:

• Dendrophilia (paraphilia) - Sexual attraction to trees
• Emetophilia - Sexual arousal from vomiting or watching others vomit
• Exhibitionism- Wanting to expose oneself to strangers
• Fetishism- Sexual arousal by non-sexual objects, like lamps or boxes.
• Frotteurism- Sexual arousal by rubbing against strangers
• Infantilism - Wanting to be treated like an infant or a toddler
• Incestophilia - Wanting to have sex with relatives
• Klismaphilia - Sexual arousal from enemas
• Masochism- Wanting to be hurt physically
• Necrophilia - Sexual attraction to corpses
• Chronophilia- Wanting to have sex with a specific age group
• Sadism- Wanting to hurt people
• Urolagnia - Enjoying urinating on people, and/or having people urinate on them
• Voyeurism- Sexual arousal by looking at strangers doing sexual things
• Zoophilia - Feeling sexually attracted to animals

Homosexuality used to be considered a paraphilia, but this is no longer the case in a lot of countries.

The opposite of a paraphilia is a normophilia, which is a "normal" sexual interest.