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Relationships may be perserve without 'normal' sexuality being replaced by deviant acts and fantasies.
The link between perversion and genital sexuality can be loosened without the term becoming inapplicable. Moreover perversions manifest themselves in almost any idiosyncratic form, just like defences. Next to a seemingly not perverse aim and object, split-off fantasies and acts exist, which form the condition for the 'normal' genital sexual relationship. Such a fantasy may be the idea that one's partner has a secret homosexual adventure like in Proust's novel. It can be the need to be unfaithful, or the fantasy of having two lovers instead of one husband, as in the examples given.