Introduction:

paraphilias, recognized as disorders of sexual preference, lead to a morbid relationship, sexual desire or behavior is aberrant, causing intense discomfort, extending over time for six months or more, determining behaviors that contravene good customs and social norms, causing discomfort that sometimes constitute crimes, which can be punished, needing specialized treatment for rehabilitation and enable social demands.

Objective:

to underline the clinical peculiarities of paraphilias, the importance of their diagnosis, social significance in their repercussion on modern trends facilitated by the new information and communication technologies, peculiarities of specialized medical-legal treatment that includes rehabilitation and vindication of relations with the social environment.

Methods:

logical-dialectical, reflexive and historical methods based on experiences and application of searching methods for up-to-date scientific information.

Results:

the particularities of the clinical diagnosis, its specific guidelines and the interest these disorders arouse on the modern means of information, raising the measures that the law authorizes and recommending the best forms of application in these cases guaranteeing their rehabilitation and vindication when they disturb the order or contravene the norms of social coexistence.

Conclusions:

the need for a specialized clinical diagnosis based on recognized guidelines is raised, which will provide the medical-legal treatment aimed at imposing measures that will promote continuous, specialized and rigorous treatment aimed at the rehabilitation and re-education of the patient.

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