Which of the following is a reason for considering a distinction between paraphilias that do not cause personal distress or impairment or harm to others and those that do?
A. It helps to identify people merely straying from the cultural norm in their sexual behavior as those suffering from a paraphilic disorder.
B. It helps clinicians make a clear distinction between a healthy person with a nonnormative sexual behavior and a person whose nonnormative sexual urges cause distress or harm others.
C. It helps clinicians make a clear distinction between pedophilia and behaviors that involve the use of nonhuman objects from paraphilias.
D. It helps medical doctors get a clear understanding of sex tourism that caters to pedophilia.
E. It helps to use paraphilic disorder as an umbrella term for people who manifest extreme sexual behaviors that might look like a paraphilia but are not.
Answer: B
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