Definitions

Contact Stances

Anti-Contact: Is a personal stance against the endorsement or acting on minor/adult relationships, bestiality, or other regularly harmful/unethical relationships including sex, in modern circumstances. This included all, what PACHE considers, harmful when acted upon paraphilias being pedophilia, bestiality, biastophilia, etc.
(Note, this does not include non-harmful when acted upon paraphilias including plushophilia, podophilia, etc.)Pro-Contact: Is a personal stance for the endorsement or acting on minor/adult relationships, bestiality, or other regularly harmful/unethical relationships including sex, in modern circumstances. This included all, what PACHE considers, harmful when acted upon paraphilias being pedophilia, bestiality, biastophilia, etc.
(This does not mean that those under this contact stance believe that their actions are harmful. A Pro-Contact may believe that scientifically and morally these acts are not innately harmful). However, PACHE does not believe those beliefs reflect the reality of a Pro-Contact situation.Non-Contact/Neutral-Contact: Neutral to the acting on/endorsing Pro-Contact actions.Complex-Contact: Could mean just about anything but can be summed up by the individual having a complex or unsure opinion on the stance of contactQuestioning-Contact: Questioning contact stance and or unsure about contactAnti-Contact Ally: A non-paraphile who supports Anti-Contacts

Paraphilias

Paraphilia: An abnormal attraction.
(This can include sadomasochism, foot fetishism, and zoophilia.)Disordered Paraphilia: A paraphilia that causes significant mental distress and or disturbance toward one’s functioning or puts them at immediate risk of harming othersParaphile: Individuals that have one or more paraphilias

Paraphilia Terminology

Recovery: Recovery is the process of a once offending or previously practicing individual moving towards Anti-Contact ethics and ideals.
(You must be in recovery for 3 to 12 months, depending on the severity, to be allowed in the PACHE official discord)MAP: Minor Attracted Person, used as a scientific umbrella term for multiple kinds of chronophilias that relate to the object of attraction being a minor such as, but not limited to, pedophilia, ephebophilia, and hebaphilia.Anti-Practice: An alternative term to Anti-ContactPro-Practice: An alternative term to Pro-Contact
(Sometimes used by zoophiles in absence of Pro-Contact)

Big 3 Definitions

Necrophilia: A paraphilia characterized by the attraction to human corpsesZoophilia: A paraphilia characterized by the attraction to animalsPedophilia: A paraphilia characterized by the attraction to children
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Notable Common ParaphiliasSadism: A paraphilia characterized by the attraction to causing pain to othersMasochism: A paraphilia characterized by the attraction to being put in pain by anotherBiastophilia: A paraphilia characterized by the attraction to rape