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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sociol.
Sec. Gender, Sex and Sexualities
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1509111
This article is part of the Research Topic Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunctions View all 5 articles

Sexual desire for non-normative sexual behaviours: Differences between centennials and millennials considering sexual orientation

Provisionally accepted
Alberto Paramio Alberto Paramio 1,2María Rusillo-Molina María Rusillo-Molina 3Antonio Romero-Moreno Antonio Romero-Moreno 1,2Antonio Zayas Antonio Zayas 1,2Serafín Cruces-Montes Serafín Cruces-Montes 1,2*
  • 1 Department of Psychology, University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
  • 2 Institute of Social and Sustainable Development, University of Cádiz, Jérez de la Frontera, Spain
  • 3 University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain

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    Non-normative sexual behaviours were traditionally studied from a psychopathological perspective, although nowadays a distinction is made between paraphilia (nonpathological) and paraphilic disorder (mental disorder). The present study aims to examine the differences between a group of millennials (n = 173) and centennials (n = 159) in their appetite for these sexual behaviours without the preconception of these behaviours as harmful or pathological. Differences in appetite related to exhibitionism and foot fetishism were found in the first instance, with millennials showing a greater appetite for these. When including sexual orientation in the analysis, in addition to exhibitionism and foot fetishism, differences were found in behaviours related to asphyxiation, bestiality and urophilia. Millennials and homo-bisexual centennials showed the highest appetite for exhibitionism behaviours, homo-bisexual centennials for choking behaviours and bestiality and homo-bisexual millennials for foot fetishism and urophiliarelated behaviours. Exploring non-normative behaviours from a non-psychopathological perspective will help us to understand the evolution of sexual appetite as part of human sexual diversity and to prevent risky behaviours.

    Keywords: sexual behaviour, Appetite, Non-normative, Millennials, Centennials

    Received: 14 Oct 2024; Accepted: 25 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Paramio, Rusillo-Molina, Romero-Moreno, Zayas and Cruces-Montes. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Serafín Cruces-Montes, Department of Psychology, University of Cádiz, Cádiz, 11002, Spain

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