The habit of deliberately exposing the genitalia as a deviant sexual act. This type of behaviour is almost always confined to men. Psychotherapy or behaviour therapy may help persistent offenders.
Public ?aunting of a person’s characteristics. Also a term describing the public exposure of genitals to another person, regarded as a form of sexual deviation, colloquially called ‘?ashing’.
n. exposure of the genitals to another person, as a sexually deviant act. The word is often broadened to mean public flaunting of any quality of the individual.
Any type of pleasurable sexual practice which society regards as abnormal. Deviation may be related to the activity, such as EXHIBITIONISM or sadomasochistic sex (see SADISM; MASOCHISM); or to the sexual object, for example, shoes or clothes (fetishism). Di?erent cultures have di?erent values, and treatment is probably not required unless the deviation is antisocial or harmful to the participant(s). Aversion therapy, or the conditioning of a person’s behaviour, may help if treatment is considered necessary.... sexual deviation
A form of sexual behaviour, most common in men, in which intercourse between adults is not the final aim. Forms of sexual deviation include exhibitionism, fetishism, paedophilia, and transvestism.... deviation, sexual
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