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
From PERV: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us by Jesse Bering, published in October 2013 by Scientific American/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Copyright © 2013 by Jesse Bering. All rights reserved.
