List the different types of eating disorders and sexual disorders.

What will be an ideal response?


Eating disorders include such disorders as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder, characterized by binge eating without behaviors designed to prevent weight gain.

Sexual disorders, in which an individual's sexual activity is unsatisfactory, are another important class of problems. They include sexual desire disorders, sexual arousal disorders, and paraphilic disorders, atypical sexual activities that may include nonhuman objects or nonconsenting partners.

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