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In psychiatry, the clinical term frotteurism (no longer called '''frottage''') refers to a specific sexual disorder. It is a Paraphilia involving rubbing against a nonconsensual person to achieve sexual arousal or even orgasm, discreetly without being discovered, typically in a Public Place such as a crowded train. Usually such nonconsensual sexual rubbing is viewed as albeit often classified as a Misdemeanor with minor legal penalties. Conviction may result in a sentence including compulsory psychiatric treatment. A person who suffers from frotteurism is known as a ''frotteur''. ETYMOLOGY The term ''frotteurism'' derives from the French verb ''frotter'' meaning 'to rub'. The term ''frotteur'' is the French noun literally meaning 'rubber' or 'one who rubs'. The psychiatric handbook, the DSM (see below), used to call this sexual disorder by the name ''frottage'' until the second edition (DSM II). However, this term is no longer used to refer to the sexual disorder, which is now called ''frotteurism'', as it is in the current fourth edition (DSM IV). Nevertheless, the obsolete term ''frottage'' still remains in some law codes and so on, retains some currency, and can cause confusion with the term '' Frottage '', which is now the preferred term for consensual rubbing as part of normal sexual activity. SYMPTOMS The professional handbook of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the '' Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders '', fourth edition (DSM IV), lists the following diagnostic criteria for ''frotteurism''.
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