Paraphilia (in Greek para παρά = besides and -philia φιλία = love) refers to powerful and persistent sexual interest other than in copulatory or precopulatory behavior with phenotypically normal, consenting adult human partners. The term was coined by Wilhelm Stekel in the 1920s and popularized by John Money in the 1960s. Psychologists and psychiatrists codified paraphilias as disorders in the 1980 version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of… (More on Paraphilia)