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Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder |
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A) Persistently or recurrently deficient (or absent) sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity. The judgment of deficiency or absence is made by the clinician, taking into account factors that affect sexual functioning, such as age and the context of the person’s life. B) The disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. C) The sexual dysfunction is not better accounted for by another Axis I disorder (expect another Sexual Dysfunction) and is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. Specify type: Lifelong Type / Acquired Type Generalized Type / Situational Type Due to Psychological Factors / Due to Combined Factors |
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A) Persistent or recurrent extreme aversion to, and avoidance of, all (or almost all) genital sexual contact with a sexual partner. B) The disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. C) The sexual dysfunction is not better accounted for by another Axis I disorder (except another Sexual Dysfunction). Specify type: Lifelong Type / Acquired Type Generalized Type / Situational Type Due to Psychological Factors / Due to Combined Factors |
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Female Sexual Arousal Disorder |
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A) Persistent or recurrent inability to attain, or to maintain until completion of the sexual activity, an adequate lubrication-swelling response of sexual excitement. B) The disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. C) The sexual dysfunction is not better accounted for by another Axis I disorder (expect another Sexual Dysfunction) and is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. Specify type: Lifelong Type / Acquired Type Generalized Type / Situational Type Due to Psychological Factors / Due to Combined Factors |
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A) Persistent or recurrent inability to attain, or to maintain until completion of the sexual activity, an adequate erection. B) The disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. C) The erectile dysfunction is not better accounted for by another Axis I disorder (other than a Sexual Dysfunction) and is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. Specify type: Lifelong Type / Acquired Type Generalized Type / Situational Type Due to Psychological Factors / Due to Combined Factors |
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A) Persistent or recurrent delay in, or absence of, orgasm following a normal sexual excitement phase. Women exhibit wide variability in the type or intensity of stimulation that triggers orgasm. The diagnosis of Female Orgasmic Disorder should be based on the clinician’s judgment that the woman’s orgasmic capacity is less than would be reasonable for her age, sexual experience, and the adequacy of sexual stimulation she receives. B) The disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. C) The orgasmic dysfunction is not better accounted for by Another Axis I disorder (except another Sexual Dysfunction) and is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. Specify type: Lifelong Type / Acquired Type Generalized Type / Situational Type Due to Psychological Factors / Due to Combined Factors |
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A) Persistent or recurrent delay in, or absence of, orgasm following a normal sexual excitement phase during sexual activity that the clinician, taking into account the person’s age, judges to be adequate in focus, intensity, and duration. B) The disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. C) The orgasmic dysfunction is not better accounted for by another Axis I disorder (except another Sexual Dysfunction) and is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. Specify type: Lifelong Type / Acquired Type Generalized Type / Situational Type Due to Psychological Factors / Due to Combined Factors |
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A) Persistent or recurrent ejaculation with minimal sexual stimulation before, on, or shortly after penetration and before the person wishes it. The clinician must take into account factors that affect duration of the excitement phase, such as age, novelty of the sexual partner or situation, and recent frequency of sexual activity. B) The disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. C) The premature ejaculation is not due exclusively to the direct effects of a substance (withdrawal from opioids). Specify type: Lifelong Type / Acquired Type Generalized Type / Situational Type Due to Psychological Factors / Due to Combined Factors |
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A) Recurrent or persistent genital pain associated with sexual intercourse in either a male or a female. B) The disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. C) The disturbance is not caused exclusively by Vaginismus or lack of lubrication, is not better accounted for by another Axis I disorder (except another Sexual Dysfunction), and is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. Specify type: Lifelong Type / Acquired Type Generalized Type / Situational Type Due to Psychological Factors / Due to Combined Factors |
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A) Recurrent or persistent involuntary spasm of the musculature of the outer third of the vagina that interferes with sexual intercourse. B) The disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. C) The disturbance is not better accounted for by another Axis I disorder (Somatization Disorder) and is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effects of a general medical condition. Specify type: Lifelong Type / Acquired Type Generalized Type / Situational Type Due to Psychological Factors / Due to Combined Factors |
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A) Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the exposure of one’s genitals to an unsuspecting stranger. B) The person has acted on these sexual urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. |
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A) Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the use of nonliving objects (female undergarments). B) The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. C) The fetish objects are not limited to articles of female clothing used in cross-dressing (as in Transvestic Fetishism) or devices designed for the purpose of tactile genital stimulation). |
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A) Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person. B) The person has acted on these sexual urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. |
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A) Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger). B) The person has acted on these sexual urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. C) The person is at least age 16 years and at least 5 years older than the child or children in Criterion A. Note: Do not include an individual in late adolescence involved in an ongoing sexual relationship with a 12- or 13-year-old. Specify if: Sexually attracted to Males, Females, or Both Specify if: Limited to incest Specify if: Exclusive Type (attracted only to children) or Nonexclusive Type |
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A) Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the act (real, not stimulated) of being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer. B) The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. |
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A) Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving acts (real, not stimulated) in which the psychological or physical suffering (including humiliation) of the victim is sexually exciting to the person. B) The person has acted on these sexual urges with a nonconsenting person, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. |
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A) Over a period of at least 6 months, in a heterosexual male, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving cross-dressing. B) The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Specify if: With Gender Dysphoria: if the person has persistent discomfort with gender role or identity |
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A) Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the act of observing an unsuspecting person who is naked, in the process of disrobing, or engaging in sexual activity. B) The person has acted on these sexual urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty. |
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A) A strong and persistent cross-gender identification (not merely a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being the other sex). In children, the disturbance is manifested by four (or more) of the following: 1 – repeatedly stated desire to be, or insistence that he or she is, the other sex 2 – in boys, preference for cross-dressing or simulating female attire; in girls, insistence on wearing only stereotypical masculine clothing 3 – strong and persistent preferences for cross-sex roles in make-believe play or persistent fantasies of being the other sex 4 – intense desire to participate in the stereotypical games and pastimes of the other sex 5 – strong preference for playmates of the other sex In adolescents and adults, the disturbance is manifested by symptoms such as a stated desire to be the other sex, frequent passing as the other sex, desire to live or be treated as the other sex, or the conviction that he or she has the typical feelings and reactions of the other sex. B) Persistent discomfort with his or her sex or sense of inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex. In children, the disturbance is manifested by any of the following: in boys, assertion that his penis or testes are disgusting or will disappear or assertion that it would be better not to have a penis, or aversion toward rough-and-tumble play and rejection of male stereotypical toys, games, and activities; in girls, rejection of urinating in a sitting position, assertion that she has or will grow a penis, or assertion that she does not want to grow breasts or menstruate, or marked aversion toward normative feminine clothing. In adolescents and adults, the disturbance is manifested by symptoms such as preoccupation with getting rid of primary and secondary sex characteristics (request for hormones, surgery, or other procedures to physically alter sexual characteristics to simulate the other sex) or belief that he or she was born the wrong sex. C) The disturbance is not concurrent with a physical intersex condition. D) The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Specify if: Sexually attracted to Males, Females, Both, Neither |
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Gender Identity Disorder NOS |
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Examples include: 1 – Intersex conditions (partial androgen insensitivity syndrome or congenital adrenal hyperplasia) and accompanying gender dysphoria 2 – Transient, stress-related cross-dressing behavior 3 – Persistent preoccupation with castration or penectomy without a desire to acquire the sex characteristics of the other sex |
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Examples include: 1 – Marked feelings of inadequacy concerning sexual performance or other traits related to self-imposed standards of masculinity or femininity 2 – Distress about a pattern of repeated sexual relationships involving a succession of lovers who are experienced by the individual only as things to be used 3 – Persistent and marked distress about sexual orientation |
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