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What is the terminology for someone who is aroused by strangling someone to death?

Albert DeSilva, the Boston Strangler, was a(n) ________.

I realize sadist covers this but I was hoping for a more specific term.

Best Answer

What you describe is one type of paraphilia.

_ "Albert DeSilva, the Boston Strangler, was a paraphilic individual or suffered from a paraphilic disorder."

Paraphilia (previously known as sexual perversion and sexual deviation) is the experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals.

No consensus has been found for any precise border between unusual sexual interests and paraphilic ones.[2][3] There is debate over which, if any, of the paraphilias should be listed in diagnostic manuals, such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The number and taxonomy of paraphilia is under debate; one source lists as many as 549 types of paraphilia.