Voyeurism, what is it

He voyeurism It is a practice in which it feels sexual excitement observing other people without them having knowledge (It is not always necessary for those people to be doing something sexual).

Content

• What exactly is voyeurism and what is its origin?
• So ... is it dangerous?
• The relationship between voyeur and exhibitionist
• The lack of consent
• The treatment of voyeurism

What exactly is voyeurism and what is its origin?

The word voyeur comes from French, of the Vair Verb (see) and the suffix (-Eur). So, the word voyeur literally means "The one who sees”, So he doesn't leave much equivocal place. Voyeurism is totally related to the act of looking,

From the clinical field, it is considered that voyeur is a person who obtains sexual excitement observing people without clothes or who are doing some sexual activity.

It is important to mention that The voyeur does not have to do any sexual activity later. In some cases, voyeur can masturbate seeing the scene in question, but that is not what defines him as voyeur, but excitement watching that scene.

Voyeurism can be considered a paraphilia, and, in some extreme cases, it can be considered a disorder. Voyeurism disorder is basically the paraphilia of bad voyeurism.

That is, while a voyeur who has this paraphilia in a healthy way can obtain that excite.

So ... is it dangerous?

No. Voyeurism in itself is not dangerous, and, in fact, the desire to observe other people undress or having sex is very frequent, so you cannot even consider something anomalous in itself.

What is dangerous is voyeurism disorder, because it implies a series of psychological problems that negatively affect the standard of living of who suffers it. That is to say, The dangerous thing is that this practice becomes something pathological.

The relationship between voyeur and exhibitionist

As we have said before, voyeurism does not require any additional action by voyeur. However, it is true that, On a few occasions, the practice of voyeurism is linked to exhibitionist practice.

It is frequent, for example, the voyeur who hides between bushes and masturbates while seeing a couple having sex or women doing topless on the beach. In this case, both voyeurism and exhibitionism occur. The risk of being discovered, in this case, increases excitation.

The lack of consent

At this point, someone might think: "Well, but I also excite myself seeing a naked person". And here we must mention a fundamental aspect and that makes the difference between what is voyeur and the one that is not: The absence of consent.

What excites voyeur is not only the vision of a naked body, but the fact that this person has not given his consent to see her in those conditions. It is because of that Not every person is voyeur for the simple fact of enjoying and exciting himself seeing a naked body.

The treatment of voyeurism

Of what we have been saying above, it follows that Not all voyeurs need treatment. The people for whom their voyeurism becomes a disorder are less, so, in most cases, no treatment is necessary.

However, in the event that this disorder exists, a treatment is necessary, which it will consist in Psychotherapy with assistance to support groups and the use of some selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

These last medications allow the compulsive acts to look. In extreme cases it may be necessary to use antiandrogen medications, which are medications that reduce testosterone levels and inhibit libido.

As you can assume for what this type of medicines implies, there are few people who want to undergo this type of treatments (even when they are aware that they suffer from the voyeurist disorder, and not only are they functional voyeurs).

In most cases, Voyeur ends up accepting these treatments because it has been arrested for exhibitionism or sexual harassment and referred to a psychiatric center.

In any case, this last treatment based on reducing testosterone is so aggressive that requires the patient's informed consent and a monitoring of liver function and of the serum testosterone concentrations.

He voyeurism It is a practice that, although it is not one of the most frequent that exists, it is given quite frequently (although only a small minority develops pathological behaviors related to it).

It may interest you:
Sexual impulse test for men

Sexual impulse test for women