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At the conclusion of Chapter 10, students should be able to:

Compare and contrast the meanings of the terms sexual variation, atypical, and paraphilic sexual behavior.

Discuss domination and submission as a sexual variation, including bondage and the domination and submission subculture.

Describe and characterize the noncoercive sexual variations, including fetishism and transvestism.

Examine cross-dressing in popular and gay culture and as a form of "gender relaxation."

Describe and characterize the coercive paraphilias, including zoophilia, voyeurism, exhibitionism, telephone scatologia, frotteurism, and necrophilia.

Explain pedophilia, including types of pedophiles, cross-sex and same-sex pedophilia, and female pedophilia.

Discuss sexual sadism and sexual masochism, including autoerotic asphyxia.

Evaluate researchers' speculations about the origins of paraphilic behaviors and their treatments.

Evaluate the different views on sexual addiction.







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