Sexual Sadism Sexual Disorder - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of Sexual Sadism

What is Sexual Sadism ?

Sadism is deriving pleasure, often sexual, from mistreating others. Some of the severe activities involved in sexual sadism include burning, beating, stabbing, raping, and killing. The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. But to the sexually sadistic offender, it is the suffering of the victim that is sexually arousing.

Causes of Sexual Sadism

The Causes of Sexual Sadism is :

• There is no identified cause but the age of onset is commonly by early adulthood.
• Most paraphilic fantasies begin in late childhood or adolescence and continue throughout adult life.
• An individual who is dressed in a woman's clothes as a form of parental punishment
• Sociocultural factors

Symptoms of Sexual Sadism

The Symptoms of Sexual Sadism is :

• Individuals with sexual sadism derive sexual excitement from physically or psychologically administering pain, suffering, and/or humiliation to another person, who may or may not be a consenting partner.
• A description of symptoms related to Sexual Masochism and Sadism, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the act (real, not simulated) of being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer.
• dificulty with sleep, such as: difficulty falling asleep, restless, broken sleep, a need for more sleep or, over sleeping.
• A change in appetite either eating more or eating less.
• The disorder is characterized by either intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors in which the individual is sexually aroused by causing humiliation or physical suffering of another person.

Treatment of Sexual Sadism

Treatment typically involves psychotherapy aimed at uncovering and working through the underlying cause of the behavior. Of those who come to the attention of the criminal justice system, the sexual sadism has usually manifested itself in dangerous activity that has harmed others. The same may or may not be true of those presenting to medical or mental health facilities.