frotteurism

A person who practices frotteurism is known as a frotteur.

The term 'frotteurism' may be applied when a person rubs up against another person, typically using their sexual parts.

The term frotteurism derives from the French verb frotter meaning "to rub".

Nevertheless, the term frottage still remains in some law codes where it is synonymous with the term frotteurism.

Even in a crowded place, preserving personal space is important, and intimate and sexual contact, such as frotteurism and groping, are normally unacceptable physical contact.

The specific paraphilias are exhibitionism, voyeurism, telephone scatologia, toucherism, frotteurism, and biastophilia (paraphilic rape).

Some individuals try to connect with others through highly impersonal intimate behaviors: empty affairs, frequent visits to prostitutes, voyeurism, exhibitionism, frotteurism, cybersex, and the like.

Courtship Disorders (six scales which take into consideration several aspects of "disturbed courtship": voyeurism, exhibitionism, obscene telephone calls, frotteurism/toucherism and sexual assault).

Quagmire is characterized as indulging in numerous sexual fetishes, from frotteurism and erotic asphyxiation to zoophilia and incest and necrophilia.

Criterion B differs for exhibitionism, frotteurism, and pedophilia to include acting on these urges, and for sadism, acting on these urges with a nonconsenting person.

However, this term is no longer used in the United States to refer to the sexual disorder, which is now called frotteurism, as it is in the current fourth edition (DSM IV).

According to DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, IV edition), where all psychiatric illnesses are represented as numerals to avoid confusion, frotteurism is classified as 302.89.

DSM-IV-TR names eight specific paraphilic disorders (Exhibitionism, Fetishism, Frotteurism, Pedophilia, Sexual masochism, Sexual sadism, Voyeurism, and Transvestic fetishism, plus a residual category, Paraphilia-Not Otherwise Specified).

The professional handbook of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text revision (DSM IV-TR), lists the following diagnostic criteria for frotteurism.

The DSM-III-R (1987) renamed the broad category to sexual disorders, renamed atypical paraphilia to paraphilia NOS (not otherwise specified), renamed transvestism as transvestic fetishism, added frotteurism, and moved zoophilia to the NOS category.