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The Physiological Basis of Problematic Sexual Interests and Behaviors
Sexual behavior, besides its rewarding qualities and relationship capacities, can cause deep and long-lasting trauma posing important public health...
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Kinky Sex Gone Wrong: Legal Prosecutions Concerning Consent, Age Play, and Death via BDSM
This commentary begins by describing the author’s research and expert witness practice serving sex and gender minorities, especially practitioners of...
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The Use of Penile Plethysmography in SVP Assessment and Treatment Decision-Making
Penile plethysmography (PPG) continues to be a frequently utilized tool in both the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders. As a primary method...
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Theories of Image-Based Sexual Abuse
Social scholars have suggested that the use of image-based sexual abuse can be explained by a gendered need for power and control, with this just...
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Neuroelectric Correlates of Human Sexuality: A Review and Meta-Analysis
Many reviews on sexual arousal in humans focus on different brain imaging methods and behavioral observations. Although neurotransmission in the...
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Sexual Dysfunctions, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphilic Disorders
This chapter will focus on three different categories of mental disorders related to sexuality and gender: sexual dysfunctions, gender dysphoria, and...
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Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations: Problems and Proposals
In the United States, several states have passed civil commitment laws that allow for the precautionary confinement of sex offenders (often referred...
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The Sexually Sadistic Properties of Necrophilia, in the Context of Serial Killing, a Case Study
In the relatively limited amount of scholarly literature examining necrophilia, there has been historical disagreement over the presence of sexual...
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Beyond the “Ick Factor”: Counseling Non-offending Persons with Pedophilia
Would you feel prepared if a client in your clinical practice shared that he was sexually attracted to children? Mental health professionals come in...
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Taxonomic Discrimination Among Sex Offenders: Forensic Utility?
Sexual offenders are a markedly heterogeneous group of individuals. The chapter provides a historic overview of rational and empirically derived...
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REBT and Sexual Problems
Sex and its close relation to love has been the inspiration for artists, poets and musicians throughout the history. As such, it has been idealized...
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Stigmatised Sexual Behaviours
This chapter focuses on stigmatised sexual behaviours in gay men. First, the psychiatric model of paraphilia is discussed and the stigma embedded...
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Sexually Violent Predator Laws: Historical Development and Evolution
Beginning in the 1990s, after a series of heinous sex crimes, states throughout the United States began to implement additional restrictions on...
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Autism and Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review of Sexuality and Relationship Education
Individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, including Autism (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID), have a right and need for appropriate...
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The Pathway from Prison to Civil Commitment to Release in New Jersey
New Jersey’s Sexually Violent Predator Act is similar to most states’ sexually violent predator statutes. This chapter describes the four-step...
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Sexuality of Persons with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
The following is a review article on psychosexual development and functioning of persons with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). The article...
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Trauma, Assessment, and Management in Sexual Offender Contexts
Sexual offenders represent a heterogeneous group of individuals that are heavily regulated by complex federal and state laws. The main psycholegal...