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Re: Addiction to porn as a sequelae of sexual abuse?

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Subject: Re: Addiction to porn as a sequelae of sexual abuse?
From: Daryl Higgins <Daryl.Higgins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:20:06 +1100
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<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">The notion of 'addiction' is perhaps the problematic issue here. Certainly, there is a body of research showing sexually inappropriate, promiscuous , obsessive or sexualised behaviours in children, adolescents, and adults in the aftermath of sexual abuse (particularly for males). And if you google the terms, you'll find lots of websites claiming a link between abuse and addictive behavours such as porn. However, there are methodological issues regarding terms such as 'addiction', hypersexuality, etc. And 'porn addiction' is likely to be subsumed within a broader rubric of sexualised or sexually inappropriate behaviour.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>See Keane, H. (2004). <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#59597B" face="Verdana" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Disorders of Desire: Addiction and Problems of Intimacy. Journal of Medical Humanities, 25(3)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/research/admin/pubs/reports/database/dynamic/output/person/person.php?person_code=rinehni&cat_code=";><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Rinehart, N.</FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> and </FONT><A href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/research/admin/pubs/reports/database/dynamic/output/person/person.php?person_code=mccabma&cat_code=";><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#095295">McCabe, M.</FONT></FONT></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> (1997) Hypersexuality: Psychopathology or Normal Variant of Sexuality?, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><I>Sexual and Marital Therapy</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">, 12, pp. 47-62,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#59597B" face="Verdana" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><DIV>Cheers</DIV><DIV>Daryl Higgins</DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000125"></FONT></SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV> <BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">______________________________________</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B></DIV><DIV><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Dr Daryl Higgins</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">General Manager - Research</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Australian Institute of Family Studies</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Level 20, 485 La Trobe St, Melbourne, VIC, 3000</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Ph:</SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(03) 9214 7821</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Fax:</SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(03) 9214 7839</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Mob:</SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>0425 795 303</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Email:</SPAN></B> <A href="mailto:Daryl.Higgins@aifs.gov.au";>Daryl.Higgins@aifs.gov.au</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV>______________________________________</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 18/12/2007, at 10:23 AM, Toni Cavanagh Johnson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Addiction to porn as a sequelae of sexual abuse?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I do not find references in the literature in this area.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space">  </SPAN>Is anyone familiar with research on this question?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thank you for your help.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Toni</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Toni Cavanagh Johnson, Ph.D.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1101 Fremont Avenue, Suite 101</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">South Pasadena, California 91030</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">USA</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tel: 626-799-4522</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">FAX: 818-790-0139</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:toni@tcavjohn.com";>toni@tcavjohn.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">www.tcavjohn.com</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#59597B" face="Verdana" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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