Paraphilia (in Greek para παρά = besides and -philia φιλία = love) is a biomedical term used to describe sexual arousal to objects or situations that are not part of normative stimulation and that can cause distress or serious problems for the paraphiliac or persons associated with him or her.Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 1994. The term was coined by Wilhelm Stekel in the 1920sStekel, Wilhelm (1930), Sexual Aberrations: The P… (More on Paraphilia)