According to the World Health Organisation, sadomasochists and transvestites are suffering from mental disorders, sexual perversions in the same category as paedophilia.
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The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders (WHO)
F65 Disorders of sexual preference
F65.0 Fetishism
F65.1 Fetishistic transvestism
F65.2 Exhibitionism
F65.3 Voyeurism
F65.4 Paedophilia
F65.5 Sadomasochism
F65.6 Multiple disorders of sexual preference
F65.8 Other disorders of sexual preference
F65.9 Disorder of sexual preference, unspecified