Mental disorder in which a paraphilia causes distress or impairment, or harm or risk of harm to others

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Sexualpathologie : ein Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende / von Magnus Hirschfeld.

Psychopathia sexualis : with especial reference to antipathic sexual instinct a medico-forensic study / by R. v. Krafft-Ebing ... The only authorised English translation of the tenth German edition.

Sexual deviation / edited by Ismond Rosen.

The sexual victimization of children / by Mary de Young.

Unclean business : the power, prejudice and politics of dirt : special event / Wellcome Collection.

Playing with dynamite : a personal approach to the psychoanalytic understanding of perversions, violence, and criminality / Estela V. Welldon.

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Sexual deviation / edited by Ismond Rosen.

The sexual victimization of children / by Mary de Young.

Unclean business : the power, prejudice and politics of dirt : special event / Wellcome Collection.

Playing with dynamite : a personal approach to the psychoanalytic understanding of perversions, violence, and criminality / Estela V. Welldon.

Sexualpathologie : ein Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende / von Magnus Hirschfeld.

Paraphilic Disorders

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Sexual deviation / edited by Ismond Rosen.

The sexual victimization of children / by Mary de Young.

Unclean business : the power, prejudice and politics of dirt : special event / Wellcome Collection.

Playing with dynamite : a personal approach to the psychoanalytic understanding of perversions, violence, and criminality / Estela V. Welldon.

Sexualpathologie : ein Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende / von Magnus Hirschfeld.

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