Quote Originally Posted by cadence View Post
I have been thinking about this question for a bit, since I thought that yes I could be grouped into the category of being a paraphilia. My mind never leaves the kinky, deviant thoughts alone.
I think there is a fine line drawn though, between that disorder and what we here think.
Just a thought — how many people here were disturbed/distressed by their fantasies/desires until they discovered they were not alone in feeling that way and that their feelings are shared by millions of otherwise perfectly normal people?

Not that I'm suggesting we are abnormal but ... Well, I guess I'm just thinking Freud and the concept that, once you cut through all the crap, it was not their desires that made his patients ill, but their repression/denial of those desires.

Take eating disorders. Nothing abnormal about eating. And yet there are people out there who just cannot come to terms with their need to eat. Probably a bad example, but hopefully you get the point.