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Explaining Paraphilia: A Novel Model Explaining A Wide Range of Sexual Interests Continuous With Normal Sexuality To my knowledge, understanding of paraphilias has not grown much in the scientific literature, with a lack of modern models that explain paraphilia in the context of evolved normal human sexuality, most hypotheses focusing on specific causes that do not take into account the correlations between sexual interests and the correlates of sexual interests. In this post I explain and test a model of paraphilia explaining interests such as BDSM, bodily fluid, taboo, partialist sexual interests linking them with traits such as sociosexuality, androphilia and gynephilia, disgust, with explanations in physiological causes and evolution, in a way that is continuous with normal sexuality.  A Need For Modern Explanations I argue that current scientific explanations for sexual interests are poor and do not fit well with real world data. One example is sexual interest in feet, which h...