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This 5-page paper reviews Sigmund Freud's thoughts about sexual perversion and whether they are true today. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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deal on various sexual issues, such as "penis envy," the "Oedipal Factor" and others, he only touched on the area of sexual perversions. Still, his commentary and thoughts on this
topic did help clarify what had been, to that time, considered heinous acts. He made his feelings known through his "Three Essays on Sexuality," with one of his quotes stating
that "no healthy person, it appears, can fail to make some addition that might be called perverse to the normal sexual aim" (McCormack, 2004).
Why did he say that? To find the answer to this question it would first be helpful to examine how, exactly, sexual perversion is defined. As with any
behavioral terms, sexual perversion has a lot of definitions. In its most basic and clinical sense, sexual perversion refers to "any non-procreative sexual act or heterosexual act which mimics the
procreative act," in other words, what is not "traditional heterosexuality" (McCormack, 2004). This definition, needless to say, covers a great deal of ground, which is why various experts have tried
to redefine it. Scott, for example, points out that sexual perversion likely includes any type of sexual activity/fantasy directed toward orgasm, outside of "genital intercourse" - with a willing partner
of the opposite sex (McCormack, 2004). Recently, the term "heterosexual" when it comes to discussion has also encompassed "homosexual." The problem here,
however, is that "perversion" is generally considered a dirty word (note the root - pervert, someone who does horrible things to others, mostly in a sexual context). Freuds discussions about
perversion, however, were anything other than dirty or horrible. Freud, for the most part, classified perversion as that which was an unconscious
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