Biastophilia
{{Short description|Type of paraphilia}}
Biastophilia (from Greek biastes, "rapist" + -philia) and its Latin-derived synonym raptophilia (from Latin rapere, "to seize"), also paraphilic rape, is a paraphilia in which sexual arousal is dependent on, or is responsive to, the act of assaulting an unconsenting person, especially a stranger.{{cite book |last= Corsini |first= Raymond J. |title= The Dictionary of Psychology |publisher= Brunner-Routledge |location= Philadelphia |year= 2002 |isbn= 1-58391-328-9 |oclc= 48932974 |page= p. 109 |url= https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofpsyc0000cors }}{{cite book |last= Flora |first= Rudy |title= How to Work with Sex Offenders: A Handbook for Criminal Justice, Human Service, and Mental Health Professionals |publisher= Haworth Clinical Practice Press |location= New York |year= 2001 |isbn= 0-7890-1499-8 |oclc= 45668958 |page= p. 91 |url= https://archive.org/details/howtoworkwithsex0000flor }} Some dictionaries consider the terms synonymous,Eric W. Hickey, "Encyclopedia of Murder & Violent Crime", {{ISBN|0-7619-2437-X}} (2003) [https://books.google.com/books?id=dDOW75aJMR8C&pg=PA347 p. 347] while others distinguish raptophilia as the paraphilia in which sexual arousal is responsive to actually raping the victim.{{cite book |last= Holmes |first= Ronald M. |title= Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior |date= 5 November 2001 |publisher= Sage Publications |location= Thousand Oaks |isbn= 0-7619-2417-5 |oclc= 48883594 |page= p. 247}}
Type of sexual sadism
The source of the arousal in these paraphilias is the victim's terrified resistance to the assault,Raymond J. Corsini "The Dictionary of Psychology", {{ISBN|1-58391-028-X}} (1999) [https://books.google.com/books?id=cB5UOSsIN74C&pg=PA692 p. 692] and in this respect it is considered to be a form of sexual sadism.Ronald Blackburn, "The Psychology of Criminal Conduct: Theory, Research and Practice" (1993){{ISBN|0471912956}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sH1HAAAAMAAJ&q=raptophilia p. 87]
Impossibility of distinguishing between paraphilic rapists and non-paraphilic rapists
Under the name paraphilic coercive disorder, this diagnosis was proposed for inclusion in DSM-5.{{cite web |url=http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid%3D416 |title=Proposed Revision | APA DSM-5 |access-date=2010-04-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417234616/http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=416 |archive-date=2010-04-17 }} This diagnosis, under the name paraphilic rapism, was proposed and rejected in the DSM-III-R.Thomas K. Zander. Inventing diagnosis for civil commitment of rapists. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 36, 459–469.
It has been criticized because of the impossibility of reliably distinguishing between paraphilic rapists and non-paraphilic rapists, and because of this diagnosis, under the term Paraphilia NOS (not otherwise specified), non-consent had been used in Sexually Violent Person/Predator commitment.Frances, Allen. 2010. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100421042007/https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/dsm/content/article/10168/1522341 Opening Pandora's Box: The 19 Worst Suggestions For DSM5]. Psychiatric Times Feb. 11, 2010. Archived from [http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/dsm/content/article/10168/1522341 the original]
Definition in Czechoslovakia
A standard concept in Czechoslovak sexology is pathologic sexual aggressivity instead. This term is strongly distinguished from sadism.Jaroslav Zvěřina: [http://www.wikiskripta.eu/index.php/Patologick%C3%A1_sexu%C3%A1ln%C3%AD_agresivita Patologická sexuální agresivita], Wikiskripta.eu, 2010–2011Petr Weiss: [http://www.planovanirodiny.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2008053101 Klasifikace sexuálních deviací] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708011554/http://planovanirodiny.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2008053101 |date=2014-07-08 }}, Společnost pro plánování rodiny a sexuální výchovu, sborník z kongresu Pardubice 2007 This disorder is understood as a coordination anomaly of the sexual motivation system (SMS), a "courtship disorder" according to Kurt Freund or displacement paraphilia by John Money, or a missing segment of SMS.Aleš Kolářský: Jak porozumět sexuálním deviacím : Teoretická východiska sexodiagnostiky – cesta k tvorbě náhledu a k realizaci esxuality v mezích zákona, Galén, Praha, 2008, {{ISBN|978-80-7262-504-8}}
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