Paraphilia Induced Suicide: A Case Report

Abstract

 Paraphilia is a term used to describe different sexual deviations involving unconventional methods of sexual 
gratification. Paraphili as indulged in abnormal and orthodox sex play by using objects as parts of the body or 
fantasies in which complete satisfaction is sought and obtained without sexual intercourse. Perversions are acts 
that are socially prohibited or unacceptable, or biologically undesirable. In sexual paraphilia, usually, person 
psychopaths suffer from mental aberrations and conflicts, socio-sexual maladjustments, psychosexual imbalance, 
and abnormalities. Paraphilia-induced suicide is a type of anomic suicide, and anomic suicide is due to a lack 
of social regulation that occurs during high levels of stress and frustration. Paraphilia may induce suicide even 
though paraphilia is not punishable. It is just due to fear of social defamation and social taboo.
 Case presentation: A 59-year-old male committed suicide on the railway track, and thenthe body was sent to the 
mortuary room for an autopsy examination. History was taken from the police and relatives. He was a widower 
for the last 15 years.
 Conclusions: Paraphilia is the form of the insertion of foreign bodies in the rectum, and when a person cannot 
remove foreign bodies himself, attending a hospital is very humiliating. To prevent the social integrity or self
esteem, the person committed suicide. Where this type of paraphilia is not listed as a crime in India, for sexual 
gratification, a person may use it by any means, which may be natural or unnatural form. Many unnatural forms 
of paraphilia are used by many people, which is not punishable. Sexual gratification is done by most of normal 
people and a few abnormal psychiatric people by any sexual perversion. All paraphilia that is not punishable by 
the law should not be considered a social taboo.