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• Title: Sexual Compulsivity Among Heterosexual College Students.
• Author : The Journal of Sex Research
• Release Date : January 01, 2004
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 222 KB

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Recent studies suggest that sexual compulsivity is related to participation in sexual behaviors that are high risk for HIV infection (Benotsch, Kalichman, & Kelly, 1999; Kalichman, Greenberg, & Abel, 1997; Kalichman et al., 1994; Kalichman & Rompa, 1995; Kalichman & Rompa, 2001; Reece, Hate, & Daughtry, 2001). Sexual compulsivity has been defined as "an insistent, repetitive, intrusive, and unwanted urge to perform specific acts often in ritualized or routinized fashions" (Kalichman & Rompa, 1995, p. 587). Recently, some have conceptualized sexual compulsivity as a pattern of participation in sexually oriented activities in a manner that is persistent and escalating and that has the potential to result in negative consequences for self and others, or the drive to participate in such activities (National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, 2004; Reece, 2003). Although substantial debate and skepticism surround the nature and existence of sexual compulsivity as a "pathological condition" (Levine & Troiden, 1988), the concept has been widely studied and measured in recent sexological, psychological, and public health research (Carnes & Adams, 2002). As yet, sexual compulsivity and its associations with HIV risk behavior have only been assessed among those at high risk for infection or those who are HIV-positive. Because the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is principally transmitted through sexual and intravenous drug use behaviors, public health researchers have examined factors related to sexual risk including substance use, sexual situations, and relationship features. Few early studies on HIV transmission considered the role of personality traits and their relation to sexual and risk behaviors. Researchers have begun to focus on individual characteristics, including the "propensity to prefer exciting, optimal, and novel stimulation or arousal" known as sensation seeking (Kalichman, et al., 1994, p. 387), and their relation to sexual behaviors that may place individuals at high risk for HIV infection. Recent attention to sexual compulsivity arose from an interest in sensation seeking as the potential cause for the continuation of high risk sexual behaviors despite their potentially harmful and lethal consequences.

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