Editing Jeffrey Dahmer (section)

==='''Paraphilias'''===

Dahmer readily admitted to having engaged in a number of paraphilic behaviors, including necrophilia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibitionism exhibitionism], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebephilia hebephilia], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fetishism fetishism], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia pygmalionism], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_murder erotophonophilia]. He is also known to have several [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partialism partialisms], including anthropophagy (also known as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism cannibalism]). One particular focus of Dahmer's partialism was the victim's chest area. By his own admission, what caught his attention to Steven Hicks hitchhiking in 1978 was the fact the youth was bare-chested; he also conceded it was possible that his viewing the exposed chest of Steven Tuomi in 1987 while in a drunken stupor may have led him to unsuccessfully attempt to tear Tuomi's heart from his chest. Moreover, almost all the murders Dahmer committed from 1990 onwards involved a ritual of posing the victims' bodies in suggestive positions—many pictures taken prior to dismemberment depict the victims' bodies with the chest thrust outwards.

Dahmer also derived sexual pleasure from the viscera of his victims; he would often masturbate and ejaculate into the body cavity and at other times, literally used the internal organs as a masturbatory aid. According to the testimony of several experts who testified at Dahmer's trial, he was not a sexual sadist. Dr. Park Dietz — testifying on behalf of the prosecution — stated: "He [Dahmer] did not torture and took steps to prevent suffering."