{"id":2659,"date":"2026-01-08T13:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/senza-categoria\/chapter-17-other-love-paraphilias\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:17:36","slug":"chapter-17-other-love-paraphilias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/en\/pubblications\/chapter-17-other-love-paraphilias\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 17: Other Love \u2014 Paraphilias"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The chapter reframes paraphilias as diverse erotic styles that may be healthy, conflicted, or delinquent depending on consent, harm, and the field in which they occur. Starting from DSM-5\u2019s categories (interests in atypical activities vs. atypical objects) and its distinction between paraphilia and paraphilic disorder, the authors criticize the historical split between sex and love and propose sexual aggression\u2014force in the service of mutual exchange\u2014as a way to reunite them. A broad sociocultural lens separates antisocial acts from delinquency (indifference to others\u2019 consequences) and criminality (power as primary pleasure), warning against pathologizing what is unconventional while excusing harm. Clinically, each philia is read through contact intentionality: voyeurism and exhibitionism as pre-contact pleasures that can support or avoid intimacy; frotteurism ranging from flirtatious play to harassment; sadism\/masochism as common elements that are safe within negotiated BDSM but hazardous when the other becomes an object; pedophilia distinguished between adult\u2013adult role play, conflicted fantasies, and truly delinquent abuse (\u201cwith care\u201d seduction vs. violence), with therapeutic focus on responsibility and identification with victims in the latter; cross-dressing as expression of gendered identification often injured by stigma, calling for trauma-informed, field-sensitive support; and zoophilia\/zooerasty largely a moral and social-conflict issue unless cruelty or social disablement is present. 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