| perversion | <psychology> A turning aside from the normal course, a morbid alteration of function which may occur in emotional, intellectual or volitional fields. In psychiatry, sexual deviation. Origin: L. Versio = a turning (18 Nov 1997) |
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| polymorphous perversion | In psychoanalytic theory, a child's variegated sexual activity and interests, in general, the manifold perversion's shown by an adult. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| sexual perversion | A sexual practice that is biologically atypical, considered morally wrong, or legally prohibited. See: bestiality, pedophilia. Synonym: sexual perversion. (05 Mar 2000) |