Diagnosis
There is scientific and political controversy regarding the continued inclusion of sex-related diagnoses such as the paraphilias in the DSM, due to the stigma of being classified as a mental illness.Some groups, seeking greater understanding and acceptance of sexual diversity, have lobbied for changes to the legal and medical status of unusual sexual interests and practices. Charles Allen Moser, a physician and advocate for sexual minorities, has argued that the diagnoses should be eliminated from diagnostic manuals. Typical versus atypical interests
Albert Eulenburg (1914) noted a commonality across the paraphilias, using the terminology of his time, "All the forms of sexual perversion...have one thing in common: their roots reach down into the matrix of natural and normal sex life; there they are somehow closely connected with the feelings and expressions of our physiological erotism. They are...hyperbolic intensifications, distortions, monstrous fruits of certain partial and secondary expressions of this erotism which is considered normal or at least within the limits of healthy sex feeling. "The clinical literature contains reports of many paraphilias, only some of which receive their own entries in the diagnostic taxonomies of the American Psychiatric Association or the World Health Organization. There is disagreement regarding which sexual interests should be deemed paraphilic disorders versus normal variants of sexual interest.
), Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment, 2nd ed., Guilford Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59385-605-2

Further reading
Kenneth Plummer, Sexual stigma: an interactionist account, Routledge, 1975, ISBN 0-7100-8060-3
Elisabeth Roudinesco, Our Dark Side, a History of Perversion, Polity Press, 2009, ISBN 0-7456-4593-3
David Morgan (psychoanalyst), Married to the Eiffel Tower. Married to the Eiffel Tower, a post on the blog Documentary Heaven. Castellini, Giovanni; Alessandra H. Rellini, PhD; Cristina Appignanesi, MD; Irene Pinucci, MD; Matteo Fattorini, BA; Elisa Grano, BA; Alessandra D. Fisher, PhD; Emanuele Cassioli, MD; Lorenzo Lelli, MD; Mario Maggi, MD; Valdo Ricca, MD (1 September 2018). "Deviance or Normalcy? The Relationship Among Paraphilic Thoughts and Behaviors, Hypersexuality, and Psychopathology in a Sample of University Students". Journal of Sexual Medicine. 15 (9): 1322–1335. doi:10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.07.015. PMID 30224020. S2CID 52290404. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 March 2020. External links

DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR list of paraphilias
Proposed diagnostic criteria for sex and gender section of DSM5