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Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 109-114 (April 2009)


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References to the paraphilias and sexual crimes in the Bible

Anil Aggrawal, MBBS, MD (Professor of Forensic Medicine)Corresponding Author Informationemail address

Received 20 August 2007; received in revised form 6 March 2008; accepted 8 July 2008.

Abstract 

While writing a book on paraphilias, the author made a thorough search of early references to paraphilias in literature, especially the Bible. Surprisingly just one published paper was available in the literature having any discussion on the references of paraphilia in the Bible, and that too was in French. [Bieder J. The polymorphous sexual deviant: a reading of Freud and the Bible. Ann Med Psychol (Paris) 1973;2(2):274–81 [in French]]. For the readers in English language, nothing was available on this interesting topic. The author undertook the task of reading the original Bible and finding out instances of paraphilias mentioned therein. Main paraphilias, abnormal sexual behavior and sexual crimes to which explicit allusions were present in the Holy Bible were adultery, incest, sexual harassment, drug facilitated sexual assault, rape, gang rape, homosexuality, transvestism, voyeurism, bestiality, exhibitionism and necrophilia.

Maulana Azad Medical College, S-299 Greater Kailash-1, New Delhi 110048, India

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PII: S1752-928X(08)00171-6

doi:10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.006


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