Sexual Paraphilias

• A sexual paraphilia is an atypical sexual interest that is persistent and intensely arousing.
• An atypical sexual interest is any sexual interest outside of sexual intercourse between consenting adults.
• A paraphilia becomes a paraphilic disorder if the paraphilia is distressing and causes the individual to harm themselves or make drastic life-changes.
• Sexual paraphilias typically develop during childhood. 
• These paraphilias are formed by complex, negative emotions becoming sexually imprinted.
• Complex, negative emotions are difficult for the underdeveloped brains of children to process properly.
• When these emotions are tied to an experience that has the potential to become eroticized, they are often sexually imprinted because doing so makes it much easier for the brain to process them.
• Unpleasant emotions caused by a confusing experience become blissful and euphoric emotions caused by an arousing experience , and this is hardwired into the individual's sexuality.
• Sexual Paraphilias are intensely arousing due to the intense emotions that caused them.

The most common arousal trigger for the majority of sexual paraphilias is SHAME.  Shame is a complex emotion, with a high potential to become sexually arousing.

Childhood betrayal traumas have a high potential for creating sexual paraphilias.  Most forms of child abuse are betrayal traumas.  Betrayal traumas induce the experience of cognitive dissonance, which means experiencing two contradicting realities that are both true.  The cognitive dissonance caused by childhood betrayal occurs when "the adult who protects me from harm is the adult who is harming me".  This is considered betrayal because children depend on adults for their survival and naturally look at adults as the people who will protect them from harm.

Children's brains are not developed enough to process cognitive dissonance.  When a child experiences cognitive dissonance, they experience a brief state of shock called "dissociative amnesia".  During this time, the traumatic experience is hidden deep within the brain, along with the complex emotions attached to it.  These complex emotions are stored in the brain as "unprocessed trauma" (meaning it has not yet been experienced).

Masochistic Emasculation Fetishism (MEF)

MEF is masochistic AGP.  Sexual masochism is caused by a traumatic childhood event, in which a child's pride is wounded. The most common cause of MEF is being dressed up like a girl and then being laughed at by your parents, which is a betrayal trauma.

The sexual masochist is very ritualistic and needs to recreate the traumatic event, in order to access the blissful feelings of humiliation that were sexually imprinted by the brain, in order to be processed more easily. Therefore, the masochistic AGP needs to dress up like a girl, in order to feel humiliated, and because of the traumatic experience that manifested the fetish, MEFs are almost always primarily transvestic.

There was once a poster here, whose story I'm going to share because it is evidence for this theory of paraphilia formation via childhood trauma.  This person had a masochistic paraphilia involving being dressed up like a clown. As it turns out, when this person was five years old their parents dressed them up like a clown for a public function and this was a very humiliating experience for them.  This was also a betrayal trauma because their parents caused them severe emotional harm.

Most AGPs have not experienced a traumatic event that they can point to as the cause of their AGP.  If you can do this, then you might be MEF (if humiliation is your arousal trigger).  As it turns out, a traumatic event is not necessary for paraphilia formation.  The part of the brain that is damaged by childhood trauma is the amygdala: the emotional processing center.  What is needed for paraphilia formation is the experience of complex, negative emotions.  There does not need to be a traumatic event for traumatizing emotions to be experienced, especially if they are attached to the experience of cognitive dissonance.

Modern society is conducive to paraphilia formation.

I am a masochistic AGP.  I am just like any other AGP, but I don't experience gender dysphoria.  I know that I would not be AGP if I had not experienced a traumatic event because I have never once felt the desire to be a girl.

The childhood desire to be a girl creates negative complex emotions, such as envy, guilt, anxiety and SHAME.  These are the emotional triggers for most AGPS.

The complex negative emotions, attached to the desire to be a girl, are the root cause of gender dysphoria.  AGP is a result of the brains method for processing these complex, childhood emotions: sexually imprinting them and transmuting them into blissfully euphoric, arousing emotions.

Boys are being socialized into a society that is emasculating them.  When a boys feels envious towards girls, it causes him to experience cognitive dissonance because he wants to be a boy AND be a girl at the same time.  Envy is a complex emotion that is difficult for a child's mind to process.

Two paraphilias that are so common today are furries and adult babies.  Clearly, one is caused by cartoons, while the other one is caused by a childhood experience associated with being a baby (perhaps not wanting to let go of being a baby?)

Paraphilias cluster because they all work off of the same complex emotions: humiliation, envy, anxiety and SHAME.

Having this understanding can help reduce dysphoria... because an AGP living as a woman is the equivalent of an adult baby living as a baby full time.

Autosexuality: because the traumatic emotions are directed at the self, the sexual arousal becomes directed at the self.

Hypersexuality: paraphilias can cause hypersexuality based on the intensity of the complex emotions, which were sexually imprinted.

And that's how sexual paraphilias are made. (?)