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    J Sex Marital Ther. 1986 Summer;12(2):139-45.

    Transcultural sexology: formicophilia, a newly named paraphilia in a young Buddhist male.

    Abstract

    Children whose species-specific, juvenile sexual rehearsal play is thwarted or traumatized are at risk for developing a compensatory paraphilia. The case of a Buddhist male exemplifies the cross-cultural application of this principle. His syndrome, formicophilia, was endogenously generated without reference to or influence by commercial pornography. The complete causal explanation of paraphilia will require both a phylogenetic (phylismic) and an ontogenetic (life-history) component. The treatment of paraphilia may combine an antiandrogenic hormone with sexological counseling.

    PMID:
    3723604
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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