DSM-IV - Sexual Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
[From American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed. Text rev. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; copyright 2000.] ...
This category is included for coding a sexual disturbance that does not meet the criteria for any specific sexual disorder and is neither a sexual dysfunction nor a paraphilia. Examples include
- Marked feelings of inadequacy concerning sexual performance or other traits related to self-imposed standards of masculinity or femininity
- Distress about a pattern of repeated sexual relationships involving a succession of lovers who are experienced by the individual only as things to be used
- Persistent and marked distress about sexual orientation
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