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MARGINALISATION AND STULTIFICTION OF PARAPHILIAS
DANICA VOJINOVIĆ

7. JULA 15

INTRODUCTION everyone participated with some understanding. In the third
conversation, directed towards the examinee picturing
Sexual attractions towards strange objects, that is, those
himself as a person who feels untamable attraction towards
attractions that are not out of love, even all those whose
people who, for instance, had their body part amputated.,
goals are not the extension of the species, are called
there was a meaningful improvement regarding the first
paraphilias (sexual anomalies). This definition may seem
conversation.
too general and leads to a conclusion that every person who
has sex out of pleasure is sexually deviant. However, some
attractions are almost generally accepted (oral, anal sex),

some are successfully fighting with disapproval, they are
given more space in the media (sadomasochism,
homosexuality). But, what is with those which are still
treated like contagious illnesses in almost every society,
where the “sickos” should be isolated from the “healthy”
ones?

METHOD OF OPERATION

In this research, in the period between 16/02/2015 until
06/03/2015, five people were interviewed three times each

about sexual deviations. In the first one, every one of them
Chart 1. Dependence of the willingness to talk from the
was introduced what sexual deviations actually were and
approach.
they had the liberty to speak about that. None of the

examinees was pressured to continue. After some time,
with everyone was talked to for the second time, this time CONCLUSION
guided towards how would the examinee react if he were to The research lead to a conclusion that, no matter how big
find out that someone in his family were sexually deviant. was the initial hostility and how much was this a taboo, it is
In the third conversation, each of the examinees was asked possible to approach this topic to almost everyone, only you
to picture himself as the sexually deviant one. need the right approach, the one who nears the subject and
the topic, so it makes him reflex, which considerably

RESULTS increases the chance for understanding the people towards
whom he, first of all, has prejudices.
Everyone responded in a different manner in the first

conversation, only two men showed an interest and a wish
to participate, the younger woman pondered and the last LITERATURE
two – the 18 year old boy and 35-year old woman almost [1] ЧОВЕК. Психологија, Софос, Београд 2007.
categorically rejected to continue the conversation. In the [2] Soble, Alan; The Philosophy of Sex, Rowman &
other one, when they were asked to think about how they Littlefield Publishers, Maryland 2002.

would react if they were to find out that one of their close
ones has some attractions that are not widely accepted,