Partialism

{{Short description|Sexual desire toward non-genital anatomy}}

{{For|the view that God is composed of parts|divine simplicity}}

File:Partialism Montage.jpg, backs, breasts, buttocks, navels, hair, hands, feet, legs, and lips are common partialisms.]]

Partialism is a sexual fetish with an exclusive focus on a specific part of the body other than genitals.{{cite book |author=American Psychiatric Association |date=2013 |title=Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders American Psychiatric Association |edition=5th |publisher=American Psychiatric Publishing |location=Arlington |isbn=978-0890425558 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/diagnosticstatis0005unse/page/700 700–701] |url=https://archive.org/details/diagnosticstatis0005unse/page/700 }}{{cite book |last1=Edlin |first1=Gordon |last2=Golanty |first2=Eric |date=2011 |title=Human Sexuality: The Basics |publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers |isbn=9780763736521 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cx2SxKD2XlQC&q=navel+partialism&pg=PA6 |access-date=2013-03-14}}Milner, J. S., & Dopke, C. A. (1997). Paraphilia Not Otherwise Specified: Psychopathology and theory. In D. R. Laws and W. O'Donohue (Eds.), Sexual deviance: Theory, assessment, and treatment. New York: Guilford. Partialism is categorized as a fetishistic disorder in the DSM-5 of the American Psychiatric Association only if it causes significant psychosocial distress for the person or has detrimental effects on important areas of their life. In the DSM-IV, it was considered a separate paraphilia (not otherwise specified), but was merged into fetishistic disorder by the DSM-5. Individuals who exhibit partialism sometimes describe the anatomy of interest to them as having equal or greater erotic attraction for them than do the genitals.Kunjukrishnan, R., Pawlak, A., & Varan, L R. (1988). The clinical and forensic psychiatric issues of retifism. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 33, 819–825.