Perversion
Perversion is a concept describing those types of human behavior that deviate from that which is understood to be orthodox or normal. Although it can refer to varying forms of deviation, it is most often used to describe sexual behaviors that are marked-out as abnormal, repulsive or obsessive. Perversion differs from deviant behavior, in that the latter covers areas of behaviour (such as petty crime) for which "perversion" would be too strong a term. It is often considered derogatory and in psychological literature the term paraphilia has been used as a replacement, though this term is controversial, and "deviation" is now used instead by others.
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“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.”
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