title: Transcultural sexology: formicophilia, a newly named paraphilia in a young Buddhist male.
abstract: Children whose species-specific, juvenile sexual rehearsal play is thwarted or traumatized are at risk for developing a compensatory paraphilia. The case of a Buddhist male exemplifies the cross-cultural application of this principle. His syndrome, formicophilia, was endogenously generated without reference to or influence by commercial pornography. The complete causal explanation of paraphilia will require both a phylogenetic (phylismic) and an ontogenetic (life-history) component. The treatment of paraphilia may combine an antiandrogenic hormone with sexological counseling.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002016:Buddhism; D003469:Culture; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007313:Insecta; D008297:Male; D008418:Masturbation; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012649:Self Concept; D012934:Social Isolation