{"id":519672,"date":"2010-04-07T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=8290"},"modified":"2010-04-07T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:00:05","slug":"ncbi-rofl-ants-in-your-pants-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519672","title":{"rendered":"NCBI ROFL: Ants in your pants? | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8296\" title=\"Ant_head_closeup\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/04\/Ant_head_closeup-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"Ant_head_closeup\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\"\/>Transcultural sexology: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Formicophilia\">formicophilia<\/a>*, a newly named paraphilia in a young Buddhist male.<\/p>\n<p><em>*The sexual interest in being crawled upon or nibbled by small insects, such as ants<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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. <span id=\"more-8290\"><\/span>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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/3723604\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8291\" title=\"ants\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/04\/ants.jpg\" alt=\"ants\" width=\"550\" height=\"208\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nImage: flickr\/<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jurvetson\/70704300\">jurvetson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related content:<br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/07\/29\/dont-blame-necrophiliacs-theyre-just-devolving-into-amoebae\/\">NCBI ROFL: Don&#8217;t blame necrophiliacs\u2013they&#8217;re just devolving into amoebae.<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/02\/10\/ncbi-rofl-references-to-the-paraphilias-and-sexual-crimes-in-the-bible\/\">NCBI ROFL: References to the paraphilias and sexual crimes in the Bible.<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/10\/29\/word-of-the-day-cacodemonomania\/\">NCBI ROFL: Word of the day: cacodemonomania.<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/03\/05\/you-put-the-deer-tongue-where\/\">NCBI ROFL: You put the deer tongue where?!?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/etCZdFTCwMGixH8mDNEbPoW8ZGY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/etCZdFTCwMGixH8mDNEbPoW8ZGY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/etCZdFTCwMGixH8mDNEbPoW8ZGY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/etCZdFTCwMGixH8mDNEbPoW8ZGY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/bFPKMfnNM5o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcultural sexology: formicophilia*, a newly named paraphilia in a young Buddhist male. *The sexual interest in being crawled upon or nibbled by small insects, such as ants &#8220;Children whose species-specific, juvenile sexual rehearsal play is thwarted or traumatized are at risk for developing a compensatory paraphilia. 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