First AD

Second AD

C. personality disorders and certain other nonpsychotic mental disorders

DSM originally characterized sexual deviations with psychopathic personality disorders based on the belief that sexual deviations were criminal acts, and thereby those individuals who engaged in sexual deviations were unlawful or psychopathic.

DSM-II defined sexual deviations in a broad category as “personality disorders and certain other nonpsychotic mental disorders.” DSM-II sexual deviations included sexual orientation disturbance (homosexuality), fetishism, pedophilia, transvestism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, sadism, masochism, and “other sexual deviation.”

DSM-5 and Paraphilias: What Psychiatrists Need to Know

Sexual & Sexuality

A quiz on significant changes in DSM-5 nomenclature as they relate to sexual disorders.

Mini Quiz: Characterizing Sexual Deviation

Renee Sorrentino, MD