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  1. This Letter focuses on the non-criminal paraphilias (fetishism, partialism, sexual masochism, consensual sexual sadism, and transvestism). The reader should not construe the present Letter to support the decriminalization of any sex crime.

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Moser, C. Problems with Ascertainment. Arch Sex Behav 39, 1225–1227 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-010-9661-9

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