20 Diane E. Papalia and Sally Wendkos Olds said that: abnormal “is acting and
thinking in an extremely bizarre way,…”
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Since the word abnormal literally mean “away from the normal”, it implies deviation from some clearly defined norm. Social science offers two
ways of distinguishing between the normal and abnormal. One emphasized by sociologists and anthropologists considers the question meaningful only as it
applies to a particular time: abnormal is that which deviates from society’s norms. The other, stressed more by psychologists, sets as the basic criterion
the individual’s well-being and the maladaptiveness of his or her behavior.
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2. Sexual Deviation
A human is created as a sexual human by God. The wholeness of human is performed in the growth of normal and health sexual. Sexual
potential appears in his behavior development. The sexual behavior biologically guarantee the continuity of human existence in the world. It is
psychologically give a satisfaction of sexual desire. And socially, it is provided a basis of love and affection between couples according to the
glorious values of his faith. The glorious values which is proven up to know means positive to the
human’s live who is challenged in a widely free lifestyle. The change of potential influence the people glorious values. There is much sexual deviation
with its damaging effect.
6
Diane E. Papalia and Sally Wendkos Olds, Psychology New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1985, p. 517.
7
Timothy W. Costello, Ph. D. and Joseph T. Costello, Ph. D., Abnormal Psychology HarperCollins College: HarperPerenial, p. 2.
21 The development of erogene zone and libido’s choice often suffer a
disturbance or barrier. The physic sexual development is obstructed due to the abnormal biology’s sex organ and the environment pressure or normal sex
organ with its deviate physic behavior in the environment. In other word, the atmosphere of environment is influenced sexual behavior.
In broadest sense, the term sexual deviation refers to sexual behavior that is different or atypical, that does not follow the prevailing patterns
sanctioned by laws or the social mores of the particular society. Since socially sanctioned sexual patterns differ from one culture to another, among
subgroups within a given culture, and over time, it is apparent that behavior labeled sexually deviant is not necessarily abnormal or maladaptive in the
sense of being inherently detrimental to the individual or to other people.
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From a psychological point of view, a sexual deviation also termed a perversion or paraphilia, is best understood as a failure of psychosexual
development. The normal individual progresses from diffuse infantile sexuality that consists of oral, anal, autoerotic, homoerotic, exhibitionistic,
voyeuristic, and other components.
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Paraphilias para-deviation, philia-attraction for refer to sexual objects or activities which dominate an individual’s life, but are considered abnormal
or deviant.
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A person can have the behaviors, fantasies, and urges that a person with a paraphilia has such as exhibiting the genitals to an unsuspecting
8
James C. Coleman, Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life United State of America: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1976, p. 558.
9
Ephraim Rosen, Ronald E. Fox, and Ian Gregory 1972, op.cit. p. 273
10
Frank B. McMahon and Judith W. McMahon, Abnormal Behavior: Psychology’s View London: The Dorsey Press, 1983, p. 422.
22 stranger or fantasizing about doing so but not be diagnosed with a paraphilia
if the fantasies or behaviors are not recurrent or if heshe is not markedly distressed by them.
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There are three points should be noted about the concept of sexual deviation. First, a sexual deviation is relative to the culture, as is a sexual
offense. For example, in ancient Greece, homosexuality was not considered a deviation. Second, although most deviations are also sexual offenses, a large
number of offenses- for example, extramarital intercourse or nongenital heterosexual foreplay- are not deviations. Third, an important component of
the concept of deviation is its stress on persistence in habit patterns. The individual who occasionally departs from normal sexual behavior is very
different from the persistent deviate.
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Sexual behavior varies in 1 the intensity of the drive and the frequency of its gratification; 2 the mode of gratification; 3 the sexual
object; and 4 the context within which the drive is aroused and gratified. A category of sexual deviation corresponds to each of these four dimensions.
1 In nymphomania, satyriasis and promiscuity there is excessive sexual activity, with inadequate attention to time, place or object.
2 The nature or mode of the sexual act- the “sexual aim of the impulse,” in Freud’s language- is deviant in masturbation, oro-genital or ono-genital
activity, voyeurism, exhibitionism, transvestism obtaining sexual gratification by wearing clothing appropriate to the opposite sex, sadism and forcible rape,
11
Gerald C. Davison, John M. Neale, and Ann M. Kring, Abnormal Psychology United State of America: John Wiley and Sons, Inc, 2004, p. 441.
12
Ephraim Rosen, Ronald E. Fox, and Ian Gregory 1972, Op. cit, p. 274.
23 and masochism. Each mode of sexual activity may occur with a variety of
different sexual objects. For example, in autoerotic masturbation the individual is his own object; in mutual masturbation the object may be an
adult of the same sex, an adult of the opposite sex, a child and so forth. 3 The object of the sexual act is deviant in homosexuality, fetishism,
preference for children pedophilia, bestiality Zoophilia, incest and so forth. 4 The social and physical contexts are deviant in prostitution. The use of
pornography is not a sexual deviation unless such materials come to take the place of a live sexual object.
3. Pedophilia
