SIECUS Report articles from June 2003

SIECUS Report archives from June 2003

Taking off to explore life's possibilities.(From The Editor)(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... This is my last SIECUS Report column. After almost eight years as your editor, I have decided to take off with my partner Reggie to explore life's many possibilities. Or, as The New York Times said recently about people of my generation...

The value of an ongoing debate.(From The President)(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... As I was researching this column, I came across a SIECUS Report from almost two decades ago. In 1986, SIECUS devoted an issue of this journal to the topic of sexual addiction and compulsion. The issue focused on the ongoing debate and featured...

Giving problematic sexual behavior the serious attention it requires.
June 1, 2003... Few topics in the sexology field have galvanized people into opposing camps as stridently as the topics of sex addiction and sexual compulsivity. They are lightening rods in a 20-year-old controversy about the nature and origin of problematic...

Understanding sexual addiction.
June 1, 2003... During the past three decades, professionals have acknowledged that some people use sex to manage their internal distress. These people are similar to compulsive gamblers, compulsive overeaters, or alcoholics in that they are not able to...

Sex addiction: a dangerous clinical concept.
June 1, 2003... There is a question that we, as professionals, have all been devoting thousands and thousands of hours to: How can we conceptualize and evaluate (and diagnose and treat, if necessary) sexual behavior? And how do we do this in a sex-positive...

Compulsive sexual behavior: what to call it, how to treat it?
June 1, 2003... Like most behaviors, sex can be taken to extremes. It can become excessive, impulsive, obsessive, compulsive, driven, and distressing. Some people suffer with these behavioral problems to the point that it interferes with their daily lives. ...

An approach to pharmacotherapy of compulsive sexual behavior.
June 1, 2003... Compulsive sexual behavior, while not an official diagnosis in the psychiatric and psychological fields, is a well-recognized clinical problem. A better understanding of the etiology of compulsive sexual behavior would be helpful in...

Global AIDS Bill will export abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.(Policy Update)
June 1, 2003... SIECUS has argued for several years that the abstinence-only-until-marriage movement was building a basis of domestic support that would eventually provide a springboard for exporting this unproven and potentially dangerous approach overseas....