What's the difference between exhibitionist and flasher?

Exhibitionist


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results obtained show that the androgen blockade ended his exhibitionistic behaviour and markedly decreased his sexual fantasies and activities, especially masturbation, without significant side effects.
  • (2) The first compared 11 rape-prone males, who were most likely afflicted with the preferential rape pattern, with 11 sexually normal controls on penile response to narratives that depicted scenes in which the individual engaged in behavior typical of voyeurs, exhibitionists, or toucheurs.
  • (3) The exhibitionist's relationship to his superego is a definitive feature of his general psychopathology of which the exhibitionistic act is only one manifestation.
  • (4) Closer analyses of the individual response profiles, using various criteria for deviance, indicated that only a small proportion of exhibitionists displayed deviant arousal.
  • (5) It is suggested that exhibitionistic-voyeuristic conflict may be an important determinant of whether or not rape is committed in group fashion.
  • (6) Forty-one exhibitionists were examined clinically and thirty-four psychometrically.
  • (7) Ever since this exhibitionist drivel began, otherwise sentient people have been sobbing into their popcorn about thwarted love and the passing of time.
  • (8) It shows agressive, sexual and exhibitionistic trends.
  • (9) Using penile volume measurement, sex history questionnaires, personality tests, and behavioral observations, it was found that (1) exhibitionists responded most to mature females and were comparable to normals in reactions to children and men; (2) while exhibitionists indicated narcissistic desires in exposing, in a laboratory study they did not differ from controls in reactions to exposing with various reactions of the female, from sexual arousal and admiration to fear and anger; (3) the only strong features distinguishing exhibitionists from controls and other sexually anomalous subjects were peeping associated with orgasm and outdoor solitary masturbation; (4) exhibitionists seemed to be less assertive and less feminine than controls, but results were weak and inconsistent; (5) exhibitionists and controls did not differ in separation and divorce or marital satisfaction; (6) blood testosterone and penile reactivity of exhibitionists were within normal limits.
  • (10) We also consider these results to indicate that there is little value in determining the sexual preferences of exhibitionists when planning treatment or estimating their risk to re-offend.
  • (11) It involved exhibitionistic and scopophilic conflicts and projective defenses, but also operated in ego-gratifying and adaptive ways.
  • (12) If you lived in the north-west at any time after 1973, it was impossible to ignore the indefatigable broadcaster, music mogul, social activist, proud northerner, football fan, writer and exhibitionist Tony Wilson, who has died aged 57 of a heart attack after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.
  • (13) A severe exhibitionist has been treated with the combination of an LHRH agonist and the antiandrogen flutamide in order to maximize androgen blocking and to control his severe deviant behaviour.
  • (14) This indifference was related to latency or adolescent attempts by the patients to gain love or attention from the parents by exhibitionistic means.
  • (15) Focuses on the excessive defensiveness and the psychodynamic factors that typify many exhibitionists.
  • (16) The sexually arousing effects of erotic and nonerotic slides were monitored with a penile mercury strain gauge in 14 exhibitionists, 21 normal controls, and 34 nonexhibitionist sex offenders.
  • (17) The various measures of subjective responses indicated that there were no exhibitionist activities during baseline and treatment nor during the year's follow-up, and the patient has been asymptomatic for more than 2 years, as confirmed by a recent follow-up visit.
  • (18) The authors compare the sexual and non-sexual criminality of five of the most frequent diagnostic groups of patients having sexuological in-patient treatment: homosexual delinquents, sexual aggressors, delinquents with polymorphous deviate activities, heterosexual peadophils and exhibitionists.
  • (19) An assessment of the sexual preferences of exhibitionists and matched non-offenders, revealed greater arousal to scenes of exposing among the offenders but the actual degree of deviant preferences was not marked.
  • (20) Milne noted that to the British press, Assange "is nothing but a 'monstrous narcissist', a bail-jumping 'sex pest' and an exhibitionist maniac" – venom spewed at someone "who has yet to be charged, let alone convicted, of anything."

Flasher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, flashes.
  • (n.) A man of more appearance of wit than reality.
  • (n.) A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).
  • (n.) The European red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was a TV movie in 1981, followed by a TV series, which ran from 1982 to 1988; the characters would race around New York City , running up stairs, down stairs, arresting perps, rolling their eyes at flashers, wielding guns when absolutely necessary.
  • (2) "Flashers" and "heavy breathers" were so much a part of the fabric of the culture that they were a running joke, part of "the dirty mac brigade" who were really to be pitied.
  • (3) It wouldn't apply to posting a picture of a flasher on a website to warn others.
  • (4) The vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority recently gained the right to a red light "with flasher" though the eight "members" of the authority will have to make do with lights "without flasher".
  • (5) Detailed instructions for the packing of the adsorption tube and the operation of the thermal concentrator (flasher) are given.
  • (6) 32:1404-1411, 1988; N. Düzgüneş, D. A. Ashtekar, D. L. Flasher, N. Ghori, R. J. Debs, D. S. Friend, and P. R. J. Gangadharam, J. Infect.
  • (7) He’s an unswerving non-driver: “When I was growing up in the Wairarapa we couldn’t afford a car and then I got to Wellington and didn’t need a car.” We are talking at Deluxe, the boho cafe where his fellow Conchord Bret McKenzie used to work – between the dilapidated artists’ joint the duo once shared and the “flasher” home where Clement now lives with his wife, Miranda, and son, Sophocles Iraia.
  • (8) The act takes a much tougher line on "flashers" and "peeping toms".
  • (9) The adsorbent was packed in stainless steel column of a suitable size, and the adsorbed vapours were released by heating in the flasher then analysed by gas chromatography.
  • (10) Observations were made of 57 drivers who approached a rural rail grade crossing in the presence of activated warning flashers signalling an approaching train.

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