Telephone Scatologia: an Aural Assault

The present paper explores the telephone scatologia which is a sexual paraphilia. Making obscene telephone calls for sexual pleasure is known as telephone scatalogia. An obscene phone call (OPC) is an unsolicited telephone call where the caller receives sexual pleasure by delivering sexual or foul language to an unknown party. In this article, the etiological theories, current incidence, characteristics and classification of the caller is being focused. The psychotherapy, treatment, medico legal aspects and the laws against the caller are also discussed here. The main objective of this paper is to offer a rarely addressed material that could be useful in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, sexology, criminology and interpersonal violence.