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= Causes of Paraphilia = According to the sixth edition of Susan Nolen-Hoeksema's Abnormal Psychology, “Behavioral theories of the paraphilias explain them as being due to an initial classical pairing of intense early sexual arousal with a particular stimulus.” Repetitive masturbation accompanied by visualizing the stimulus “reinforces the association between the stimulus and sexual arousal.” Once a connection is established, “the sexual arousal may generalize to other stimuli similar to the initial fantasy, leading to paraphilic behavior.”