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Frotteurism - Frotteurism Symptom, Cause, Treatment
A person who suffers from frotteurism is known as a frotteur . It is a paraphilia involving rubbing against a nonconsensual person to achieve sexual arousal or even orgasm, discreetly without being discovered, typically in a public place such as a crowded train.The term toucherism is sometimes used to describe the closely related condition involving only touching or fondling without rubbing, although it is generally considered to be part of frotteurism.The most commonly practiced form of frotteurism is rubbing one's genitals against the victim's thighs or buttocks. A common alternative is to rub one's hands over the victim's genitals or breasts.
Symptoms of Frotteurism
Here are some Symptoms of Frotteurism are includes
- Recurrent, intense, or sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors that involve touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person.
- The person has acted on these sexual urges, or the fantasies or urges cause significant distress to the individual or are disruptive to his everyday functioning.
- The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Causes of Frotteurism
The cause of frotteurism are no scientific consensus concerning. Most experts attribute the behavior to an initially random or accidental touching of another's genitals that the person finds sexually exciting. Successive repetitions of the act tend to reinforce and perpetuate the behavior.
Treatment of Frotteurism
The treatment of paraphilias in general may involve the use of medications and/or These therapies.
- Group Psychotherapy - A very general term used to cover any psychotherapeutic process in which groups of individuals meet together with a therapist/leader.
- Sychotherapy - In the most inclusive sense, the use of absolutely any technique or procedure that has a palliative or curative effects upon any mental, emotional or behavioral disorder.
- Umanistic Psychology - Largely the creation of Abraham Maslow which concentrates on the higher human motives, self-development, knowledge, understanding and esthetics.
- Ranspersonal Psychotherapy - is a branch of psychology that is concerned with the study of those states and processes in which people experience a deeper or wider sense of who they are, or a sense of greater connectedness with others, nature, or the "spiritual" dimension.
- Ational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - Is a cognitive -behavioral therapy whose comprehensive approach helps people change dysfunctional emotions and behaviors by showing them how to become aware of, and modify the beliefs and attitudes that creates these unwanted states.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - An approach to psychotherapy based originally on behavior therapy and consistent with its basis tenets.
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