Terms Related to Sexual Abuse

• Child Sexual Abuse

  Sexual maltreatment of the child or minor.

• Sexual Sadism

  A condition in which there is a derivation of pleasure from inflicting pain, discomfort or humiliation on another person or persons. The sexual significance of ...

• Sexual Aversion Disorders

  Disturbances in sexual desire and the psychophysiologic changes that characterize the sexual response cycle and cause marked distress and interpersonal difficulty. (APA, DSM-IV, 1994)

• Sexual Pheromones

  Pheromones that elicit sexual attraction or mating behavior usually in members of the opposite sex in the same species.

• Sexual Child Abuse

  Sexual maltreatment of the child or minor.

• Pedophilia

  A sexual disorder occuring in a person 16 years or older and that is recurrent with intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving ...

• Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

  Disturbances in sexual desire and the psychophysiologic changes that characterize the sexual response cycle and cause marked distress and interpersonal difficulty. (APA, DSM-IV, 1994)