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Nonparaphilic Sexual Addiction Mark Kahabka
The Linacre Quarterly Volume 63 | Number 4 Article 2 11-1-1996 Nonparaphilic Sexual Addiction Mark Kahabka Follow this and additional works at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, and the Medicine and Health Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Kahabka, Mark (1996) "Nonparaphilic Sexual Addiction," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 63: No. 4, Article 2. Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol63/iss4/2 Nonparaphilic Sexual Addiction by Mr. Mark Kahabka The author is a recent graduate from the Master's program in Pastoral Counseling at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Impulse control disorders of a sexual nature have probably plagued humankind from its beginnings. Sometimes classified today as "sexual addiction" or "nonparaphilic sexual addiction,"l it has been labeled by at least one professional working within the field as "'The World's Oldest/Newest Perplexity."'2 Newest, because for the most part, the only available data until recently has come from those working within the criminal justice system and as Patrick Carnes points out, "they never see the many addicts who have not been arrested."3 By definition, both paraphilic4 and nonparaphilic sexual disorders "involve intense sexual urges and fantasies" and which the "individual repeatedly acts on these urges or is highly distressed by them .. "5 Such disorders were at one time categorized under the classification of neurotic obsessions and compulsions, and thus were usually labeled as disorders of an obsessive compulsive nature. Since those falling into this latter category, however, perceive such obessions and compulsions as "an unwanted invasion of consciousness"6 (in contrast to sexual impulse control disorders, which are "inherently pleasurable and consciously desired"7) they are now placed under the "impulse control disorder" category.s To help clarify the distinction: The purpose of the compulsions is to reduce anxiety, which often stems from unwanted but intrusive thoughts. -
Asexualities, Intimacies and Relationality
Asexualities, Intimacies and Relationality Tiina Vares Introduction Romantic asexual, aromatic asexual, grey-asexual and demi-sexuali are just some of the identity categories which sit under the umbrella of asexuality. Since the founding of the online site AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education Network) in 2001, we have seen the development of an asexual movement in primarily western liberal democracies. While AVEN defines an asexual individual as a person “who does not experience sexual attraction”, the terms above highlight a diversity with the ways in which asexual identified people experience and define their asexuality. This diversity includes different kinds of attraction, different ways of desiring and seeking out interpersonal relationships, and a range of intimacies, physical and otherwise (Gupta and Cerankowski, 2017). While research into asexuality has increased rapidly in the past two decades, there has been little academic attention to how asexual people conceive of and practice intimacy and relationships (Dawson et al., 2016). In this chapter I add to the small body of academic scholarship that has focused on the experiences of friendship, relationships and intimacy of self-identified asexuals (Haeffner, 2011; Van Houdenhove et al. 2015; Dawson et al., 2016; Vares, 2018). Based on my research with 15 self-identified asexuals, aged 18 to 60 years, and living in New Zealandii (see Vares, 2018), I explore the ways in which participants are “actively and creatively renegotiating the boundaries of the platonic, the intimate and the sexual” (Carrigan, 2011, p. 476). I first consider the significance of friends in participants’ lives and, in particular, the ways in which the boundary between friend/partner and friendship/relationship is being disrupted. -
Asexual People's Experience with Microaggressions
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Student Theses John Jay College of Criminal Justice Winter 1-23-2018 Asexual People’s Experience with Microaggressions Tamara Deutsch CUNY John Jay College, [email protected] How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/jj_etds/52 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] RUNNING HEAD: The Experiences of Asexual People With Microaggressions 1 Asexual People’s Experience with Microaggressions Tamara Deutsch John Jay College of Criminal Justice A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Forensic Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice – City University of New York The Experiences of Asexual People With Microaggressions 2 Table of Contents Abstract......................................................................................2 Introduction and Literature Review........................................................................3 Methods.......................................................................................9 Results........................................................................................12 Discussion...................................................................................18 References..................................................................................22 -