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')

A pervert is someone who is sexually aroused by something very, very out of the norm or considered seriously weird by the vast majority of the population. It isn't something that is necessarily illegal though.

Again I'd ask whether people who are relying on these to define it think it changes depending on country?

No, not all perverts are dangerous.

You can be perverted an rapist.

I'd say it was someone who has sexual desires that are beyond what is socially acceptable and probably illegal.

I think my distinction would be something someone does (of an overtly sexual nature) that makes you uncomfortable or creeps you out but isn't otherwise harmful. Once it reaches some sort of emotional/physical harm then it's criminal.

Someone who is 'deviant' (to me i guess, depends on the person) in kinks. Like the guys that fucked cars, like people who buy used knickers off ebay.

I would't classify a pedophile or rapist as a pervert, pervert seems lesser somehow and dimishes the words to me- they're cunting pedophiles and rapists, I can't put on parr with a knicker sniffer or pant thief.

Yes sykadelic described it well, once criminal it's beyond perversion imo.

Depend on who's saying it. Gay people get called pervert. People who like Centreparcs sex get called it. I would say it's vanilla to kinky but with an element of wrongness about it. The wrongness is key.

I always thought a pervert (or 'perve') was just someone letchy? I.e. men wolf whistling at a woman walking down the street! My interpretation of the word now seems so twee and tame compared to some of yours! hides in bubble

I think 'sex pest', 'sex predator' or 'molester' sound much, much worse and conjure up more horrid associations.

Sex pest always sounds minor to me...like it's slangy and a bit silly...that's because a "pest" is a minor irritant like a fly or a mouse.

A person who is hassling for sex...is a predator. Not a pest.

'Pervert' to me mostly means being into BDSM or other paraphilias, and a word that's used in a lighthearted way to refer to people who either have sex alone/with objects or with consenting partners.

To me a pervert is someone who commits the lower level sex crimes so groping, flashing, peeping Tom's etc. Or those who make inappropriate comments about a woman's appearance on a regular basis or leer at women.

I wouldn't associate the word pervert with rapists or pedophiles. They're utterly depraved.

I think the word is over used.

I don't care what consenting adults do between themselves.

I care about what people do to people who haven't given their consent or aren't in a position to give consent.

Why, OP?

Good question Bowlersarm , and I am not sure I can answer.

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There are still large parts of our community that may see homosexuality as acts of perversion. Hopefully this is getting smaller.

Boundries shift with education and revision.

Are the boundaries we seem to have set within Western society to be taken as written in stone?

But as not all perversions are sexual... I don't equate pervert with sex.

Mainly odd, out of the ordinary, socially unacceptable behaviours - not necessarily illegal or harmful, just odd, not true as in lie or corrupted, not true to its origins.

People who like Centreparcs sex get called it.

I realise I may regret asking this - and I've never been to a Centreparcs, so it might be a dumb question. Didn't realise they were about sex. But...

What is Centreparcs sex?

If you find out, EBear, let me know. I have no idea either!

Just realised it's actually called Center Parcs with "Centre" deliberately misspelt.

Yes, yes, Tiggy, I'd usually be worrying about the spelling (and I did wonder about it with my last post - I assumed it's American rather than misspelt) but enough of all that - what is Centre/Center Parcs sex?

The "Parcs" bit I strangely find a bit less annoying as it's an obvious typo and not an americanism.

Parcs is french - which is odd because centre is french too but they spell it center.

Not sure about pervert, but that is definitely very, very perverse.

I wonder if the same people also like to have sex at Kwik Fit?

"Parcs is french" So is Brie, but I wouldn't want to have a holiday inside one.

Men who date very young girls barely legal

The man to tried to grab my lady on the train in 1999

The man I caught masturbating in the bush when jogging two years ago at 6am I have not been jogging since

And people who marry in instead of out meaning people who marry family members I think that is just grim and a little perverted that you can feel sexual attraction to someone you has the same bold line as you lye alone act on it