caa a22 4500 477117740 CHVBK 20180405111627.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02437582 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02437582 Masturbation prohibition in sex offenders: A crossover study [Elektronische Daten] [Christina Brown, Giovanni Traverso, J. Fedoroff] Some self-help groups for individuals with aberrant sexual interests (e.g., Sexaholics Anonymous and Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) maintain that a period of "sexual sobriety” is necessary for treatment. The hypothesis was tested that sexual urges during a 30-day period of voluntary abstinence from masturbation would be less frequent and intense than during a period when masturbation was not avoided. Outpatient pedophiles were randomly assigned to either refrain from masturbating or make no attempt to alter their masturbation frequency for a period of 30 days. All participants were crossed over to the other treatment condition at the start of the 2nd month. Sexual urges and behavior were measured using weekly self-reports. A repeated measures ANOVA failed to show a difference in reported intensity of sexual urges,F(7, 91)=1.15,p=0.34; masturbation urges,F(7, 91)=1.73,p-0.11; adult sex urges,F(7, 91)=1.82,p=0.09; or child sex urges,F(7, 91) =1.58,p=0.15, in Masturbation Allowed vs. Masturbation Not Allowed conditions. Of 17 participants, 3 (18%) were able to retain completely from masturbating for 1 month, 4 participants (25%) thought it was helpful not to masturbate; 1 participant (7%) thought therapists should recommend avoidance of masturbation. This study suggests that sexual sobriety from masturbation does not aid in the control of pedophilic fantasies. This may be because the technique is ineffective, or because so few participants are willing to engage in it. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 masturbation nationallicence pedophilia nationallicence sex offenders nationallicence treatment nationallicence Brown Christina Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut Traverso Giovanni Departmento di Soienze Medico-Legali, Cattedra di Psicopatologia Forense, University di Siena, 53100, Siena, Italia aut Fedoroff J. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 25/4(1996-08-01), 397-408 0004-0002 25:4<397 1996 25 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02437582 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02437582 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brown Christina Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Traverso Giovanni Departmento di Soienze Medico-Legali, Cattedra di Psicopatologia Forense, University di Siena, 53100, Siena, Italia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fedoroff J. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 25/4(1996-08-01), 397-408 0004-0002 25:4<397 1996 25 10508 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer