Dysregulated Sexuality and High Sexual Desire: Distinct Constructs?

Winters, Jason; Christoff, Kalina; Gorzalka, Boris B.

doi:10.1007/s10508-009-9591-6

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“…Although the construct of hypersexuality involves much more than simply adding up the number of orgasms, we nevertheless followed the suggestions of Kafka (1997), who proposed that men who had seven or more orgasms per week could be classified as hypersexual. Additionally, since more recent research shows that hypersexuality can be regarded as reflecting a particularly strong sex drive on an underlying dimension (Graham, Walters, Harris, & Knight, 2015;Winters, Christoff, & Gorzalka, 2010), we also calculated an aggregated sex drive index (SDR; α = .66) consisting of the four z-standardized SOI items. Furthermore, potential outliers were identified using the median absolute deviation (MAD; Leys, Ley, Klein, Bernard, & Licata, 2013), resulting in cut-offs for outliers with ≥ 10 orgasms per week, ≥ 165 minutes of sexual fantasies, and ≥ 95 minutes of pornography viewing every day (Klein et al, 2015) 1 .…”

Section: Sexual Deviant Behaviorsmentioning

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Risk Factors for Sexual Offending in Men Working With Children: A Community-Based Survey

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Identifying risk factors for sexual abuse in men who work with children and who have already abused a child could lead to more appropriate screening and prevention strategies and is thus of major scientific and societal relevance. A total of 8,649 German men from the community were assessed in an extensive anonymous and confidential online survey. Of those, 37 (0.4%) could be classified as child sexual abusers working with children, 90 (1.0%) as child sexual abusers not working with children, and 816 (9.4%) as men who work with children and who have not abused a child. We assessed the impact of working with children as an individual risk factor for self-reported child sexual abuse and compared personal factors, pedophilic sexual fantasies, deviant sexual behaviors, antisocial behaviors, and hypersexuality among the three groups. Most interestingly, working with children was significantly associated with a self-reported sexual offense against children, however, it explained only three percent of its variance. Child sexual abusers working with children admitted more antisocial and more sexually deviant behaviors than child sexual abusers not working with children and than men working with children who have not abused a child. Our findings support some of the suggestions made by other researchers concerning factors that could be considered in applicants for child-or youth-serving institutions. However, it has to be pointed out that the scientific basis still seems premature.

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Section: Sexual Deviant Behaviorsmentioning

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Risk Factors for Sexual Offending in Men Working With Children: A Community-Based Survey

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“…The women seeking help had more psychological symptoms such as depression and anxiety. The study population is not representative because the participants were recruited in the United States and Canada through internet sites that provide sexual advice (12). In New Zealand, 940 people at the age of 32 were questioned on excessive sexual behavior and risky sexual behavior.…”

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Diagnosis and treatment of participants of support groups for hypersexual disorder

Tierens

Vansintejan

Vandevoorde

et al. 2014

Arch Ital Urol Androl

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Background: The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which members of support groups for hypersexual disorder meet the proposed criteria for hypersexual disorder of Kafka, how the diagnosis of hypersexual disorders is made and what treatments are currently given. Methods: In this non-interventional research survey, members of support groups for hypersexual disorder received a questionnaire in which the criteria for hypersexual disorder according to Kafka were included as well as the way the disease was diagnosed and treated. Results: The questionnaire was presented to 32 people but only 10 completed questionnaires were returned. Five of the ten respondents met the criteria of Kafka. For the other five respondents a hypersexual disorder was not confirmed but neither excluded. Only for three respondents the diagnosis was made by a professional healthcare worker. The treatment included -besides the support group in nine cases -also individual psychotherapy. Two respondents took a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI), as recommended in the literature. Conclusions: The members of support groups for sex addiction were difficult to motivate for their participation. The way hypersexual disorders were diagnosed was far from optimal. Only two participants received the recommended medication.

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“…La hipersexualidad ─también llamada compulsividad sexual o adicción al sexo─ es un cuadro clínico que se caracteriza por la presencia de un excesivo deseo sexual (expresado a través de intereses normofílicos) que escapa al control voluntario del paciente que la padece (Kafka, 2010;Winters, Christoff y Gorzalka, 2010). En una propuesta de criterios diagnósticos para su inclusión en el dsm-5, se propuso que un paciente con este cuadro clínico debía cumplir al menos 3 de los 4 criterios siguientes: 1) el tiempo dedicado a la actividad sexual interfiere en la atención a las responsabilidades y obligaciones; 2) el sexo se utiliza como medio para regular estados de ánimo disfóricos (ansiedad, depresión, irritabilidad, etc.…”

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Validación preliminar del inventario de hipersexualidad en jóvenes

Castro-Calvo¹,

Ballester‐Arnal²

2017

AgoraSalut

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rAfAel BAllester-ArnAl rballest@uji.es mAríA dolores gil-llArio dgil@uv.es resumen introducción: La hipersexualidad es un cuadro clínico que resulta de la combinación de un deseo sexual desmedido y una incapacidad patológica para su control. Se estima que podría afectar en torno al 6 % de la población, si bien la cifra varía dependiendo del instrumento empleado para su identificación. Esta varianza se debe, entre otras razones, al uso de instrumentos no validados en los contextos concretos donde se emplean. Con el objetivo de paliar esta limitación, en este trabajo se presentan los resultados psicométricos preliminares de la adaptación al castellano del inventario de hipersexualidad (de ahora en adelante, ih). método: Para ello, 600 jóvenes (300 chicos y 300 chicas) de entre 18 y 27 años completaron una versión traducida y adaptada del ih junto con otros instrumentos de evaluación de compulsividad sexual. resultados: A través de Afe se encontró que el ih comprendía 3 factores que explicaban el 55,5 % de la varianza del cuestionario. Esta estructura factorial se confirmó a través de Afc (x 2 = 239,4; g.l. = 145; x 2 /g.l. = 1,65; rmseA = ,03 [90%ic = ,02 -,04]). La fiabilidad de la puntuación total y las subescalas osciló entre ,79 y ,91. Así mismo, las correlaciones con escalas afines resultaron positivas y significativas (r entre ,47 y ,71). Conclusión: Estos resultados justifican su empleo en la evaluación de la hipersexualidad en jóvenes españoles y su superioridad sobre otros instrumentos utilizados tradicionalmente en la evaluación clínica de esta patología. palabras clave: inventario de hipersexualidad, traducción, validación, jóvenes. Abstract introduction:Hypersexual disorder is a clinical diagnosis characterized by an excessive sexual desire together with a pathological inability to control it. It is estimated that this clinical diagnosis could be affecting about 6 % of the total population, although this figure varies depending on the instrument employed for its diagnosis. One of the most important problems when doing an accurate estimation of its prevalence is related to the use of non-validated assessment instruments. In order to solve this limitation, the

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Dysregulated Sexuality and High Sexual Desire: Distinct Constructs?

Cited by 159 publications

References 52 publications

Risk Factors for Sexual Offending in Men Working With Children: A Community-Based Survey

Risk Factors for Sexual Offending in Men Working With Children: A Community-Based Survey

Diagnosis and treatment of participants of support groups for hypersexual disorder

Validación preliminar del inventario de hipersexualidad en jóvenes

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