BrainCan - case studies

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Does writing a case sage feel like a contemptible trip to the dentist? You are not alone. Most...

saying power: the greatest (and funniest) sex...

For a number of years now,I have been collecting notorious and not-so-notorious quotes approximately...

this farming man: an unusual case of...

One of the most bizarre sex-related stories I own near across in the final few years concerns an...

a touch too much? a brief look at hyphephilia

In a previous blog I briefly examined frotteurism (in which a person derives sexual pleasure or...

loving on the edge: a brief look at extreme sexual...

In my preceding blogs I have examined a wide variety of different – but potentially risky –...

small talk: alice in wonderland syndrome...

final week,I was contacted by the journalist Abigail Moss approximately a previous blog that I wrote...

sexual heeling: a brief look at altocalciphilia

“Nothing has been invented yet that will conclude a better job than high heels at making a good...

connecting standards: reso and openid connect

Don Thibeau,The OpenID Foundation, with Jeremy Crawford, or CEO,genuine Estate Standards...

helping students develop a personal brand

The University of Portland Pamplin School of commerce features a co-curricular personal and...

jealous high: a brief look at zelophilia

According to Dr. Aggrawal’s 2009 book Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and...

no pain, no gain: a brief look at religious self...

In preceding blogs,I have looked at various aspects of sexually masochistic behaviour. However, some...

blown away: a beginner s guide to inflation...

In preceding blogs I have briefly mentioned various forms of inflation fetishes. In my blogs on fat...

elevation elation: a brief look at lift and carry...

In previous blogs on both muscle worship (i.e.,sthenolagnia) and sexual piggybacks, I briefly...

fat s life: another look inside the world of...

Online letter from Jill to ‘Dr. Feeder’: “I am a feedee from Boston in desperate need of a...

totally bananas for an apple source: a brief look...

In a preceding blog I briefly examined sitophilia,a sexual paraphilia in which the individual has an...

step toe and fun: another look at trampling...

“I’m a guy and I savor being walked on by women wearing high heels. It doesn’t hurt. Is this...

the skin i m in: a beginner s guide to doraphilia

In one of my preceding blogs on the ‘A to Z of non-researched sexual paraphilias’ I briefly...

acting up: a brief look at the hollywood...

In a preceding blog I briefly examined Delusional Misidentification Syndromes (DMSs). These are...

double trouble: syndrome of subjective doubles‬

In a preceding blog on Delusional Misidentification Syndromes,I briefly mentioned the rare syndrome...

hot dogs: a bizarre case of zoophilic...

In preceding blogs,I have separately examined zoophilia (sexual arousal from animals), exhibitionism...

dance encounter: a beginner s guide to choreophila

“The rhythm,the feel, the vibrations – god it felt trustworthy. Imagine the most static, and...

introducing kaltura tools to faculty

Recently,George Mason University published a kind introduction to Kaltura’s tools for their...

all around the lobe: a brief look at ear fetishes

“I’m obsessed with guys with tiny ears. They turn me on. Isn’t that weird? When I’m dating...

come undone: a beginner s guide to traumatic...

I’m not fairly sure where I first read approximately it,but Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome (TMS)...

the hold of rolled gold: a brief look at wedding...

In January 1995,the Channel 4 television documentary programme Equinox examined sexual paraphilias...

wam, bang, thankyou mam: a brief look at wet and...

In a preceding blog, I briefly looked at salirophilia – sometimes called saliromania – a sexual...

the beast inside: what does your favourite animal...

Every couple of months I regain calls from the media asking me to comment on what some particular...

hopelessly devoted to you: the church of maradona

“Our Diego/Who art on soil/Hallowed be thy left foot/Thy magic near/Thy goals be remembered”...

give me strength: another brief look at muscle...

In preceding blogs I gain examined sthenolagnia (a sexual paraphilia in which individuals derive...

the worm that turned on: a beginner s guide to...

In preceding blogs I have looked at various sexually zoophilic behaviours relating to ‘creepy...

the prints of veils: a brief look at veil...

In a preceding blog I examined clothes fetishism and in doing that research,I soon realized that...

ashes to ashes: does cremainlining really exist?

I’m starting nowadays’s blog with a news story from May 13th 1993 that occurred in Boynton Beach...

under pressure: a brief look at inflatable rubber...

In previous blogs I have looked at various sexual fetishes that involve sexual arousal from being...

hoovers and shakers: another look at vacuum...

In a previous blog I briefly looked at the medical literature relating to penile injuries arising...

packed punch: a very brief look at ...

One of the weirdest sounding sexual paraphilias that I beget come across is gastergastrizophilia in...

cheesy does it: an unusual case of sitophilia

In a preceding blog I looked at sitophilia,a sexual paraphilia in which individuals have an erotic...

blood pressures: interview with a [female] vampire

In a preceding blog I briefly examined clinical vampirism as a sexual paraphilia. In that blog I...

urine for a treat: a brief overview of...

In a preceding blog,I examined medical fetishism (i.e., those individuals that derive sexual...

built from kicks and water: a brief look at scuba...

“[Question] Is it normal to contain a scuba fetish approximately scuba diving and snorkeling and...

aisle love you always: a brief look at wedding...

While researching preceding blogs on harmatophilia (i.e.,individuals who derive sexual arousal from...

playing with mouth organs: a brief look at lip...

“Dear Abby. Please succor save my marriage. My wife of five years discovered an Internet browser...

cynical psychology: the psychology of hoaxing

Earlier this week, I appeared on BBC radio talking about the psychology of hoaxing after someone had...

handy crafts: a brief look at fingernail fetishes

The one thing approximately sexual fetishes that always amazes me is how specific some people’s...

getting a leg up: a brief look at pantyhose...

“As far as I can remember I bear been easily aroused by women wearing pantyhose. At the age of...

write back: a brief look at oshouji and sexual...

Anyone that has followed my blogs will know that I gain more than a passing interest in Japanese...

the birds and the bees knees: a very brief look...

One Saturday night while my family was watching Strictly approach Dancing, I found myself idly...

disfigure it out: a brief look at post mortem...

“A body of an adult female of approximately 25 years ragged was found dead in a naked condition in...

blood discussed: a brief look at haematophagia

Haematophagia generally refers to the practice of animals feeding on the blood of another species....

bosom buddies: a brief look at breast fetishism

Over the last year, I contain received more than a dozen emails (all male) asking why I contain not...

coming to a different view: the masturbation...

While researching an article on compulsive masturbation,I fairly by chance came across a recent...

germanic street preachers: the psychology of...

Regular readers of my blog will be aware that I describe myself as a music obsessive with an...

clothes of play: the psychology of fancy dress

Yesterday,my local paper (The Nottingham Post) interviewed me for a Halloween record about the...

palm minimization: an unusual case of alien hand...

In a preceding blog I briefly overviewed Alien Hand Syndrome. Since writing that blog I came across...

blame it on the boogie: a brief look at dancing as...

In a preceding blogs I have examined both choreophilia (sexual arousal from dancing) and frotteurism...

shape and sighs: a beginner s guide to...

Are you the type of person who finds people who are very physically different from you physically...

bad hair daze: a beginner s guide to uncombable...

I’m certain some of you reading the title of this blog will be thinking that I have made...

herd in stink t: a brief look at cow dung and cow...

“Hindu nationalists in India occupy launched a marketing exercise to promote cow’s urine as a...

royal male: a brief look at queening fetishes

While researching a previous blog on squashing fetishes I came across an online account from a...

to pee or not to pee: a beginner s guide to...

In two preceding blogs on the sexual paraphilias of salirophilia (i.e.,deriving sexual arousal from...

scaling video production…with the help of...

When the demand for professional-quality video production outstripped the capacity of the University...

the dirty smack brigade: a beginner s guide to...

According to Dr. Anil Aggrawal in his 2009 book Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes...

crossing the see: a brief look at ...

Some time ago I came across a 2012 online article entitled ‘18 Sexual Fetishes That Sound Made Up...

making an online killing: a brief look at suicide...

Back in March 2011,a then 46-year customary American ex-nurse William Melchart-Dinkel from Minnesota...

slow pain coming: a brief look at benign...

In a previous blog,I examined the medical research on individuals that suffer severe headaches as a...

sowing the seeds of love: a brief look at...

In a preceding blog I examined maieusiophilia that according to Dr. Anil Aggrawal’s 2009 book...

take a stance on me: a brief look at hands on...

I can’t remember precisely how, but one day final year I came across a website called ‘Hands On...

the unbelievable tooth: a brief look at dental...

In a preceding blog,I examined medical fetishism. While researching that blog I came across a number...

mould on tight: a brief look at plaster cast...

Back in the early 2000s I remember watching Plaster Caster,a documentary film that looked at the...

displeasures of the flesh: a brief look at...

In preceding blogs I have examined the psychology of sexual cannibalism and erotophonophilia (aka...

more tales of heads: a brief look at suicidal...

In a preceding blog,I examined non-suicidal decapitations and said that I would look at suicidal...

hooked on pain: inside the world of the corn tryb...

“Devotees at Kerala’s Aaryyankavu Bhagwathi Temple maintain devised a new way of performing the...

metal defectives: a brief look at metal eating and...

In a preceding blog I briefly examined pica (an eating behaviour in which individuals eat...

hot flat mate: the unusual case of co existent...

Over the Christmas period, I was at a family wedding in the Cotswolds when by chance I came across...

sheathing troubles: the strange case of accidental...

While researching a previous blog on condom snorting,I came across an intriguing case study of...

muddy daughters: a beginner s guide to geophagia

In preceding blogs I fill looked at pica and some of the pica sub-variants including pagophagia (the...

swinging lessons: a beginner s guide to candaulism...

In a preceding blog on exhibitionism (i.e.,individuals who expose their genitals to other people), I...

identity marred: a ‪beginner s guide to...

Some of the strangest mental and neurological syndromes that exist involve delusional...

current affairs and shocking news: a beginner s...

Back in 1999,I had my first ever article published on sexually paraphilic behaviour in the magazine...

from the university of perversity: an a to z of...

One of my students asked me the other day whether I will ever run out of sexual paraphilias to write...

creature comforts: how do zoophiles justify their...

Regular readers of my blog will know that I don’t shy absent from talking about behaviours that...

tunnel vision: a brief look at near death...

In 1964,the comedian actor Peter Sellers had a series of eight rapid heart attacks after which his...

the highs of cries: another look at dacryphilia

In a preceding blog I examined the sexual paraphilia dacryphilia. Dr. Anil Aggrawal in his book...

the ego has landed: a personal look at egomania

One idle evening I was surfing the net looking for blog ideas when I came across a November 2011...

disability acts: a beginner s guide to...

In preceding blogs I have examined both medical fetishism (individuals who are sexually aroused my...

waste not, want not: a brief overview of...

One of the most stomach churning behaviours among humans is coprophagia (i.e.,the eating of faeces),...

case study - dual diagnosis treatment, court...

A Male client in his twenties and of Native-American descent presented for six months of...

personal capture: putting video creation in the...

Experts increasingly agree that video provides a powerful tool for education. But not all faculty...

hoard focus: a brief overview of diogenes syndrome

In a preceding blog on animal hoarding I made a passing reference to Diogenes Syndrome (DS) that is...

bottling it up: a brief look at penile...

While I was researching a blog on urethral manipulation I came across a paper entitled ‘Penile...

ginger rogerers: a very brief look at figging‬

While researching various other blogs (most notably one on urtication and sexual arousal from...

belch rare bit: a very brief look at burping...

Over the last couple of years I’ve covered some pretty idiosyncratic fetishes in my blog....

duty bound: a beginner s guide to mummification...

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how specific some of the objects of erotic and sexual...

what s up doc? a beginner s guide to medical...

Most of you reading this will probably be aware of the psychosomatic condition of hypochondria (also...

swearing blind: a brief look at anton babinski...

The final time I examined some aspect of blindness in my blog was when I examined amaurophilia, a...

next of skin: a brief look at ehlers danlos...

Although I beget seen various photos of people with super stretchy skin and incredibly flexible...

no fuss over pus? a bizarre case of oral...

According to Dr. Martin Kafka in a 2010 issue of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, partialism refers...

glum drone pleasures: the psychology of ian curtis...

“Now there’s a really good book…[by French economist] Jacques Attali wrote in the late [1970s]...

extremes of dreams (so it seems): the psychology...

Regular readers of my blog will know that when it comes to certain films and television shows (and...

sexual healing: a brief examination of medical...

I’m sure most of us can remember playing ‘doctors and nurses’ when we were kids but there are...

blown away: a brief overview of balloon fetishism

Balloon fetishes are (unsurprisingly) sexual fetishes that feature balloons as the source of sexual...

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