Well, so much for lobbying the American Psychological Association. The new DSM-V is about to come out and guess what? Anything but missionary position for sex is pretty much a disorder.
This means that even though the fine print clarifies that Paraphylia, or what the real world calls fetishes are not a disorder unless it causes "distress and impairment", few shrinks are likely to read past the heading. This has been an ongoing problem and a lot of time and money has been expended to try to get fetishes tossed out completely, since it is not the fetish that is the problem in most cases. However, the folks at the APA are very, very, very conservative and wouldn't budge.
After all, it took years to get them to declassify homosexuality as a disorder, so what do you expect?
Meanwhile people with Asperger's Syndrome, many of whom I am very familliar with, are now classified as Autistic. Poof! A whole disease is dismissed. My guess is that Asperger's Syndrome doesn't get the same kind of money from insurance companies that Autism does, so the APA, following the money just enriched their members with full coverage!
Call me cynical? Maybe just suffering from Life Irony Disorder?
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