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‘When is a pervert not a pervert?’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sidney Crown*
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The title seems chosen to catch the eye. This it does, but as being perjorative. In contemporary writing about sexual variations only psychoanalysts and a few psychotherapists retain the term ‘perversion’; others have abandoned it as stigmatising.

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