Prerequisites for Formation of Sexual Perversions in Modern Youth: Research Results

Abstract

The article presents the theoretical and empirical study of the prerequisites for the formation of sexual perversions in modern youth, carried out by the scientific and pedagogical staff of Lviv State University of Internal Affairs (Ukraine), working in the field of social and behavioral sciences. The research was conducted using the following methods: «O. Potemkina's sexual profile assessment method», «Methodology for determining the tendency to deviant behavior according to M. Horska» and a Questionnaire for the existence of deviant sexual experience. The study involved 46 young respondents aged 19 to 30. The men presented a sample of 43.5%, and the women estimated 56.5%. The study was led in March-May 2022.

The analysis of certain scientific research in the field of psychology on sexual perversions of the personality was performed, and the concepts and types of sexual perversions were disclosed. In particular, the main concepts of the study were described: autoeroticism; homosexuality; pedophilia; gerontophilia; necrophilia; zoophilia, bisexuality, exhibitionism, frotteurism, scopophilia, fetishism, coprophilia, transvestism, sadism, masochism, necrophilia, ephebophilia, porn, and porn addiction, etc.