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Article: Sexual compulsivity among heterosexual college students.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
- Author:
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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 ...