Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention
Volume 20, Issue 3, 2013
DOI: 10.1080/10720162.2013.807483
Keith W. Bearda, Stephen L. O’Keefea, Sam Swindellb, Sandra S. Stroebelc, Karen Griffeed, Debra H. Younge & Thomas D. Linza
pages 217-253
- Published online: 12 Aug 2013
Abstract
Retrospective data were entered anonymously by 1,178 adult men using computer-assisted self-interview. Twenty-five were victims of brother-brother incest (BBI), 26 were victims of child sexual abuse by an adult male (CSA-AM) before 18 years of age, 1,127 were controls. BBI was often the first sexual experience for the victim. Our findings were consistent with other reports of early and persistent hyper-eroticization of incest victims. BBI and CSA-AM increased the likelihood of engaging in behaviors as an adult consistent with a co-existing or primary male-male sexual orientation, and both had deleterious impacts on adult men’s sexual adjustment with their adult partners.
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