What does the word 'Pervert' mean to you?

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I am thinking it will mean many different things to many different people.

What does it mean to you? (in terms of 'Sexual Pervert')

Paedophile, rapist, someone with a damaging (and usually illegal) sexual interest.

Someone with a twisted sense of what is appropriate sexually.

Yes...someone whose idea of what is sexy, is wrong to most of society.

So socially unacceptable fancies....flashing, taking photos up skirts, looking through windows...that kind of thing and worse.

I think that is a fair response ChildrenOfTheDamned

But then would you classify someone who just has an 'interest' in such activities as being a pervert?

looking through windows

Funny you should say that, but then this isn't a TAAT

Are all 'perverts' dangerous?

someone who is depraved and who does things that are revolting.

Any body who commits a sexual assault, this could be mild such as smacking some one arse to more sever such as rape.

Using feathers is kinky, the whole chicken perverted!

What do you mean by just having an interest in Paedophilia and rape? You mean someone who fantasises about it but doesn't do it? Yes, that would fit the criteria. Why are you asking?
For me, I wouldn't use the word pervert to describe a rapist or paedophile. I tend to associate it with deviant or fetishistic preferences, not in a particularly derogatory way. A rapist is a rapist, not a pervert.

Harmless pervert.

Unacceptable or illegal sexual behaviour.

For consenting adults - pretty much anything goes.

Away from the natural course of things. In a sexual context, anything not done purely for reproductive purposes. With the lights off. And no more clothing removed than STRICTLY NECESSARY.

I wouldn't use the word pervert to describe a rapist or paedophile. I tend to associate it with deviant or fetishistic preferences

Same here. Someone who sniffs bicycle seats is a pervert. A rapist is a rapist.

I think I reject it as a concept really. Most people certainly don't use it to mean just things that are damaging to others and/or unlawful. If you rely on the law as the arbiter then I'm a pervert in some jurisdictions but not others.

this could be mild such as smacking some one arse

That's not a pervert........unless he does it to everyone he meets. Just one smack on one arse is not a pervert.

someone who is depraved and who does things that are revolting.

Whose definition of revolting?

In the context of being in a pub or club and a man or women does it to try and pull.

The laws

We were asked what the word means to us.

A sexual pervert to me would be....an older man leering at young teenage girls, imagining their bodies and having sex with them. Although they,would never act on that.

Or a sexual act that might seem more extreme and 'perverted' than the norm.

Why, OP?

Oh, I think perverts definitely are not dangerous.

Someone with sexual interests which are illegal - paedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, rape etc.

It is important to distinguish between someone who a pervert and a deviant. I don't think whether they have followed through with their desires is relevant. Someone who is perverted has a twisted view of sexuality but someone who is a deviant takes it much further in my opinion. Therefore rapists, paedophiles, necrophiles and those who engage in bestiality fall under the later category but voyeurs and seat sniffers etc are perverts in my opinion. I think someone needs to be hurt (or have the potential to get hurt) in either category. Therefore those into s&m are fetishists and not either category.

p.s. I do get the irony of implying those into s&m don't get hurt but I meant someone hurting someone else, either physically or mentally, against their will.