Main Types of Sexual Perversions. What Did the Ancients Do?
Today, sex is a means of experiencing pleasure, not just a continuation of it. People experience pleasure in different ways, both for themselves and for each other. However, there are certain boundaries imposed by society and upbringing. Beyond these boundaries, sexual perversions begin.
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These are also called sexual perversions or sexual deviations. They are abnormal for the society in which a person lives and for sexual behavior. Classifying sexual perversions is quite difficult, as norms in this area vary from period to period in history and from culture to culture. However, there is a list of perversions that are accepted by all people. From time to time, it changes and adjusts, adding or removing certain elements.
What behavior is considered 100% perversion?
This list was compiled by the American Psychiatric Association. In the United States, this classification has been in effect since 2013. Thus, sexual perversions are considered as follows:
- Fetishism is a sexual attraction to body parts or clothing.
- Clothing fetish perversion is the enjoyment of wearing clothing worn by the opposite sex.
Perversions can occur in combination, if one person derives pleasure from several kinky things. There are other obstacles, too. For example, there is a desire to rub against women in cars during rush hour or in crowds (at concerts, in long lines). This is called flotillism.
Gennady Delyagin, a criminologist from Russia, wrote an entire book entitled “Criminal Sexology,” which created this field in forensic science. According to his classification, perversions include (in addition to those listed above) sexual attraction to the disabled, people of color, and narcissism (arousal from oneself). He also included an excessive interest in pornography in the list of perversions.
Furthermore, scientists have identified disorders associated with arousal from other people”s secretions. In this case, fetishes include saliva, blood (for example, during a woman”s “recent” intercourse), urine, and feces.
Many of the phenomena covered by these classifications are found in pornographic films. Some of the girls of easy virtue, whose profiles can be found on special websites, offer clients services like “Golden Shower”. This means that there are indeed many people in the world who enjoy sexual deviance.
Modern psychiatry does not classify anal sex, oral sex, fisting, the use of intimate toys or masturbation as perversions. So you can have fun.
Questionable Perversions: What”s Normal?
Medicine indicates some perversions, but society and religion are completely different. Therefore, it is impossible to be completely objective in this matter. Some women are comfortable with anal sex and can experience orgasm, while others are afraid of it and frown upon it. The next type of sexual relationship still has its supporters and opponents.
Oral Sex
This is one of the most discussed ways to please your partner on various forums. Although we are talking specifically about fellatio, oral sex also includes cunnilingus, caresses, stimulation and anilingus of the male testicles.
Interestingly, not only people engage in oral sex. Similar behavior is also observed in some primates and bats.
Territory of Feelings,” an online magazine for women, provides the following data.
- 52% of women love giving blowjobs.
- 20% will only do this if the man asks.
- 18% consider all types of oral sex to be perversion.
- 10% have never tried fellatio at all.
However, psychologists from the University of Guelph (Canada) conducted a similar study with men and published their results in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. The numbers are as follows.
- 52% of men like to perform cunnilingus on girls.
- 41% sometimes do this if a woman asks them to.
- 7% consider oral sex to be a perversion.
A significant portion of women consider the method of giving pleasure to a partner whom they know well to be abnormal. Among men, this percentage is lower. This may be due to the fact that fellatio is technically difficult and does not bring physical pleasure to women. For this reason, many associate it with coercion and sadomasochism. However, because cunnilingus is easier and less painful for men, fewer men consider it kinky.
Even laws and religions show that different societies view perversion differently. In Singapore, it was only in 2007 that the law was repealed, according to which oral sex could lead to a 10-year prison sentence. In Indonesia, such laws are still in effect. In the United States, this type of sexual intercourse was only legalized in 2003.
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Recent trends show that people are talking more and more openly about sex. The desire of men and women to better know each other, their inner selves.
Islam does not prohibit oral sex, but it does not encourage it either. Christianity does not directly prohibit oral sex, but some sects do not approve of it. However, Orthodoxy and Catholicism condemn any type of sexual activity other than vaginal, since it does not lead to reproduction. In Buddhism (in some schools) oral stimulation is strictly prohibited. Even such a common phenomenon is considered a perversion by some people, countries and laws, which once again illustrates the ambiguity of the problem of sexual deviations.
Anal Sex
For centuries it was considered a perversion (sexual perversion) and was condemned by religions. In Western countries today there is a stereotype that this type of sex is dirty and offensive. Many also consider it a perversion due to highly developed anorectal dysfunction.
In the USA, the Kinsey Institute (dealing with issues of sex, gender and reproduction) conducted a study. According to him, 40% of men and 35% of women have tried anal sex at least once in their lives.
In some countries, anal sex is considered deviant and regulated by law. In Guyana (a country in South America), a person can be sentenced to 10 years for attempted anal penetration alone. If the trial takes place, they will be imprisoned for life. In Jamaica, this type of sex between men is punishable by 10 years in prison and hard labor. In Canada, anal sex with a minor is illegal, but other sexual acts are legal at age 14.
BDSM
The entire subculture is based on role-playing games of dominance and submission. In sex, dominance of one of the partners is manifested. In modern society, most types of BDSM are prohibited or restricted. Therefore, for many people this phenomenon is an outright perversion. Many people who engage in BDSM play also find pleasure in inflicting and receiving pain.
The Ukrainian magazine M|Port conducted a survey of its readers and found that 75% of women want to completely submit to their partners in bed and experience the sensations of spanking.
However, BDSM participants agree on this process in advance and adhere to the principles of safety, reasonableness and voluntariness. This distinguishes this phenomenon from criminal activity.
Sexual Perversions
Group Sex
This is not a new phenomenon. In ancient times, many religious rituals were sexual in nature and were called orgies. More than three people took part in it. It was practiced in Ancient Greece, Egypt and Rome.
Artists of the 19th century (for example, Thomas Rowlandson, Peter Fendi, Edouard Henri Avril) painted the most explicit sex scenes on canvas, in which two or more people participated.
Entertainment magazine IVONA conducted a survey in which 28% of men and 13% of women took part in group sex. European Christian culture views group sex as a sin. In addition, psychotherapists have discovered that people who tend to frequently engage in this type of sexual relationship are often involved in other abnormal phenomena, such as exposure, voyeurism and sadomasochism. In some cases, these preferences coexist with psychopathology.
However, group sex is very popular and has its own variations.
Processes involving three people are known as trioism. It can involve two women and one man (FWM) or two men and one woman (FFM). Three people of the same sex can also participate (LJJ or MMM).
Interesting: German sexologists found that 74% of men fantasize about sex with two women. However, every third woman is not against “having fun” with two men.
A threesome is considered deviant if the partner cannot experience satisfaction without a third party.
Another popular type of group sex is swinging. His fans call themselves swappers and even form clubs based on special interests. These are couples who have been in a relationship for some time and are looking for other couples for romantic pleasure. In the mid-20th century, a trend emerged in the United States.
Sociologists from Bellarmine University (USA) conducted a study that showed that about 50 million people around the world actively practice swinging. Data based on data from the largest online swingers club. The average age of participants was from 31 to 35 years (women and men, respectively). They do not consider swinging a perversion and admit that they have become happier since they began to practice such relationships.
5 Shocking Perversions in Human History
The Book of Life of the Earth”s Population contains piquant pages that modern censorship classifies as “over 18 years old” (and in a good sense, “top secret”).
- In ancient Greece, a noisy lesbian festival of Aphrodite Anosia was celebrated. It all started with erotic entertainment. The women then undressed those carried by their mothers and swam in the sea. Coming ashore, they began a real orgy. The women satisfied each other in every possible way. Men were punished for not attending the celebrations or even watching the fun.
- In ancient Rome there was a special ritual of worshiping Bacchus, the god of vegetation. Married women deprived boys of their virginity. This process is called initiation. Then it turned into an orgy. By the way, this is where the synonym for this word came from — bacchanalia. Those who did not want to participate in this process were simply killed.
- It is known that Roman emperors loved cruelty and sadomasochism, especially during orgies. Caligula and Nero were so excited by the sight of torture that they forced others — both women and men — to take part in it.
- In the 16th century, the collapse of church representatives in Europe was recorded. For example, there were 50 prostitutes in the palace of Pope Alexander VI during one of his holidays in 1501. The one who “covered” the maximum number of women received gold jewelry.
- One of the most famous holidays in Ancient Greece is the Champion of the Elysées. It was a nine-day procession in which thousands of people took part. On the sixth day, noisy festivities began, which turned into an orgy. Nine days before the start of the holiday, women were prohibited from having sex, and they “went down” during the procession.
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Sexual perversion is an extremely subjective phenomenon. In many ways, preferences in bed depend on the character of the person with whom he lives, his religion and society.
No one has the right to blame others for liking it. Finally, even Sigmund Freud stated that only the complete absence of sex can be considered a sexual deviation.
