[1] The specific paraphilias are biastophilia (paraphilic rape), exhibitionism, frotteurism, telephone scatologia, and voyeurism.
Some behaviors that are unacceptable under most circumstances, such as public nudity or sexual contact between dancers, may be accepted or even encouraged during celebrations like Carnival or Mardi Gras.
[12][13][14][15] The courtship disorder model offers an underlying common cause for these paraphilias in men to explain this co-occurrence.
[6][7] Courtship disorder is widely cited by sexologists and forensic scientists as one of the predominant models of the paraphilias.
"[22] Another theoretically based taxonomy of the paraphilias was proposed by John Money, who described the range of paraphilic interests as lovemaps.