biastophilia
Also known as raptophilia, paraphilic rape, pathologic sexual aggressivity, paraphilic rapism, paraphilic coercive disorder
thumb|Peter Paul Rubens - The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus Biastophilia (from Greek biastes, "rapist" + -philia) and its Latin-derived synonym raptophilia (from Latin rapere, "to seize"), also paraphilic rape, is a paraphilia in which sexual arousal is dependent on, or is responsive to, the act of assaulting an unconsenting person, especially a stranger. Some dictionaries consider the terms synonymous, while others distinguish raptophilia as the paraphilia in which sexual arousal is responsive to actually raping the victim.
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- Type of sexual sadism
- Inclusion as diagnosis in DSM and ICD
- Definition in Czechoslovakia
- See also
- References
thumb|Peter Paul Rubens - The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus Biastophilia (from Greek biastes, "rapist" + -philia) and its Latin-derived synonym raptophilia (from Latin rapere, "to seize"), also paraphilic rape, is a paraphilia in which sexual arousal is dependent on, or is responsive to, the act of assaulting an unconsenting person, especially a stranger. Some dictionaries consider the terms synonymous, while others distinguish raptophilia as the paraphilia in which sexual arousal is responsive to actually raping the victim.
== Type of sexual sadism==