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The following is a list of paraphilias, or sources of sexual arousal, discussed in "Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us" [Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26.00] by Jesse Bering.

Acrotomophilia

Arousal to amputees

Actirasty

Arousal to the sun’s rays

Agalmatophilia

Arousal to statues

Anasteemaphilia

Arousal to a person of extreme stature, either giant or dwarf

Apotemnophilia

Arousal to oneself as an amputee

Autogynephilia

Arousal to oneself [male only] in the form of a woman

Autoplushophilia

Arousal to oneself dressed as a giant cartoon-like stuffed animal

Chasmophilia

Arousal to caverns, crevices, and valleys

Climacophilia

Arousal to falling down stairs

Coprophilia

Arousal to feces

Ephebophilia

Arousal to older adolescents, approx. 15-19

Exhibitionism

Arousal to displaying one’s sexual organs in public

Fetishism

Arousal to objects that have been in physical contact with desired person

Formicophilia

Arousal to insects

Frotteurism

Arousal to touching a stranger surreptitiously in a crowded place

Gerontophilia

Arousal to the elderly

Hebephilia

Arousal to pubescent aged children, approx. 11-14

Katoptronophilia

Arousal to sex in front of mirrors

Knismolagnia

Arousal to being tickled

Lithophilia

Arousal to stone and gravel

Masochism

Arousal to experiencing physical and psychological pain

Melissaphilia

Arousal to bees and wasps

Nasolingus

Arousal to sucking on a person’s nose

Nebulophilia

Arousal to fog

Necrophilia

Arousal to corpses

Objectophilia

Arousal to a particular object, distinct from fetishism

Partialism

Arousal to a body part other than the reproductive organs, e.g., calves

Pedophilia

Arousal to prepubescent children

Podophilia

Arousal to feet

Psellismophilia

Arousal to stuttering

Psychrophilia

Arousal to being cold and watching others who are cold

Pteronphilia

Arousal to being tickled by feathers

Pubephilia

Arousal to pubic hair

Pygophilia

Arousal to buttocks

Sadism

Arousal to causing physical and psychological pain

Savantophilia

Arousal to the cognitively impaired or developmentally delayed

Stygiophilia

Arousal to the thought of hellfire and damnation

Teleiophilia

Arousal to reproductive-aged adults

Teratophilia

Arousal to the congenitally deformed

Titillagnia

Arousal to tickling other people

Transvestic Fetishism

Arousal to female garments touching the male’s skin

Urophilia

Arousal to urine or urinating others

Vorarephilia

Arousal to eating another person’s body parts

Voyeurism

Arousal to spying on others for sexual gratification

Xylophilia

Arousal to wood

Zoophilia

Arousal to nonhuman animals