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Title: DSM-5 paraphilic disorders criteria in the light of autoerotic asphyxiophilia and non-sexual form of oxygen restriction. Author: Dora M, Mijas M, Dobroczyński B. Journal: Psychiatr Pol; 2019 Oct 30; 53(5):1103-1112. PubMed ID: 31955188. Abstract: The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published in 2013 has proved to be particularly interesting in the field of sexuality. It introduced a number of significant changes in the definition of sexual norms, among them a widely discussed distinction between paraphilias and paraphilic disorders. The key criterion separating the abnormal sexual interests from the disordered ones is clinically significant distress resulting directly from sexual behavior and/or the risk of suffering or harm to another person as a result of one's sexual behavior. In the case of masochism - which addresses the phenomenon of suffering quite particularly - this distinction is troublesome. Using the example of autoerotic asphyxia - a behavior from the masochism spectrum - the authors critically examine the proposed DSM-5 method of defining the standards of sexual behavior. Interesting in this regard has been a comparison between autoerotic asphyxia and free diving - a nonsexual activity which, although also associated with possible loss of life by reduction of oxygen, has not been pathologized.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]