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Clarification on DSM

It is important to note that wording is causing some confusion, resulting in some degree of misinformation (or lack of clear distinction at least) in the article section on DSM.

DSM exclusively focusses on a fixated and pathological zoophilia -- one which meets very specific criteria. It is far from clear and far from confirmed that all persons who practice zoosexuality, are what we might call "DSM-zoophiles" (of a fixated, pathological nature), even if in everyday and clinical speech the word "zoophile" is regularly used for them.

In clinical (DSM) terms "zoophile" has a specific, clinical, technical meaning. like many technical words that have non-technical lay-meanings, it is important not to confuse the two. Far from nit-picking, this is a crucial distinction, a form of linguistic slippage often responsible for confusion even within the psychological field itself. For example, according to Beetz - "Authors write about zoophilia, and though they do not explicitly define it, it must be assumed that they at least do not include all persons who have sex with animals, but rather restrict their comments to a real, permanent, exclusive, fixated zoophilia as defined in the DSM-IV."

Where this leaves the article:

DMS-IV states an opinion upon fixated clinical zoophilia meeting its criteria. What it does not state is a view that all zoosexuality will meet this criterion. According to significant research (which was not around in the 1980s when DSM-IV was drafted), it seems that much zoosexual activity turns out to be outside this form. We need to consider carefully the implications of this for the article wording. FT2 18:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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