The definition of a pervert is a person with abnormal sexual behavior. An example of a pervert is someone who peeks into his or her neighbor's bathroom. ... A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.

What causes someone to be a pervert?

The underlying cause of male acts of perversion has always been explained as the need for control and mastery in order to compensate for deep-seated feelings of sexual insecurity, which in turn are caused by arrested psychosexual development.

What does it mean to be sexually perverted?

any sexual practice that is regarded by a community or culture as an abnormal means of achieving orgasm or sexual arousal. Sexual perversion is an older term that is little used nowadays, largely having been replaced by sexual deviance or, in a psychiatric context, paraphilia.