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...Ebing publishes Psychopathia Sexualis, which coins the terms “sadism” and “masochism” and describes sexual disorders in which acts of cruelty and bodily punishment become sexually pleasurable. At this time, the two “sexual anomalies” are understood as distinct: sadism involves finding sexual pleasure in inflicting pain on another person; masochism involves ceding control of a sexual situation to another person...
Under the category of “paraphilias,” the DSM also lists pedophilia, exhibitionism and fetishism. All are understood as mental disorders along the lines of depression, anxiety or schizophrenia...
Mark is quick to point out that each so-called disorder is only understood as such if the drives and behaviors impair normal social interaction. No disorder exists, then, unless the “fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning,” the manual explains...
This week, NCSF will go to court with their biggest initiative yet: a lawsuit challenging the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which prevents the Internet publication of anything understood as obscene by “contemporary community standards.” NCSF charges that this—the last remnant of an act whose other components were judged unconstitutional in a 1997 Supreme Court decision—is a free-speech violation...
...from it. Dayton last month received the same briefing as his fellow Senators about a CIA worst-case scenario involving simultaneous terrorist attacks across the country. Yet he apparently took the hypothetical threat as an imminent one. "Most people who heard the briefing," sniffs an intelligence official, "understood the context. It was theoretical...