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Erotic target location error (ETLE) is a hypothesized dimension for paraphilias, defined by having a sexual preference or strong sexual interest in features that are somewhere other than on one's sexual partners.[1] When one's sexual arousal is based on imagining oneself in another physical form (such as an animal, an infant, or an amputee) the erotic target is said to be one's self, or erotic target identity inversion (ETII).[2]

The terms "erotic target location error" and "erotic target identity inversion" were first used in 1993 by the sexologist Ray Blanchard.[2]

Proposed types

The sexologist

autoandrophilia.[3]

Blanchard writes that whereas

surgery for sex reassignment and permanently take on a role and life of the other sex.[4][5] A male with sexual arousal based on temporarily taking on the appearance or role of a woman is transvestic fetishism
.

Several other sexual interests also exist in ETLE forms:

Whereas

body integrity identity disorder,[9] and the desire to undergo surgery to remove a limb. People who temporarily adopt the role or identity of an amputee have been called disability pretenders.[9]

Whereas

autozoophilia
refers to sexual arousal in association with being an animal.

The sexual attraction to plush animals is termed

autoplushophilia for the sexual attraction to being or changing one's body to have plush features, and fursuitism for sexual arousal from wearing a fursuit to temporarily resemble an anthropomorphic animal.[1]

Whereas pedophilia refers to the sexual preference for children, paraphilic infantilism refers to the sexual interest in being a child.[11]

Lawrence and others have posited parallels between gender identity disorder and apotemnophilia,[9][12] as well as between gender identity disorder and species identity disorder.[13]

Criticism

In a letter to the editor of

pathologizes nonstandard sexual expression" and that "ETLEs are a slippery slope," whereas Moser's view is that all sexual phenomena should be removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).[15]

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