Electrical aversion, aversion relief and sexual retraining in treatment of fetishism with masochism

A 27-yr-old male was treated for fetishism with masochism by electrical aversion and aversion relief on a twice per day basis for 8 days. To increase heterosexual responsiveness, sexual retraining was combined with the above procedure. After this active treatment, the patient was discharged from hospital to continue sexual retraining exercises at home for 1 month. The latency to imagine the deviant fantasies and to evoke sexual arousal while fingering his fetishistic objects increased progressively as the treatment evolved. At 1 and 3-month follow-ups, the subject reported that his masochistic and fetishistic fantasies had completely disappeared, and at a 4-month follow-up, he considered his sexual problems solved. The improvement was maintained 1 yr after treatment.