Jon Boyes/ Photographer's Choice/ Getty images. Hans Riegel invented gummi bears (the first gummi candy) and gummi candy during the 1920s. Riegel was the owner of the German candy company Haribo. Haribo went on to manufacture the first American made gummi candy in 1982.
paraphilia â(plural paraphilias or paraphiliae) 1  An abnormal sexual attraction, typically of extreme or pathological nature.
An optional paraphilia is an alternative route to sexual arousal. In preferred paraphilias, a person prefers the paraphilia to conventional sexual activities, but also engages in conventional sexual activities. The literature includes single-case studies of exceedingly rare and idiosyncratic paraphilias.