The ultimate high: Sexual addiction and the bug chasing phenomenon

Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-40

  Moskowitz, David A ^a   Roloff, Michael E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FETISHISM; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SEROCONVERSION; SEXUAL ADDICTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 33947656415     PISSN: 10720162     EISSN: 15325318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10720160601150121     Document Type: Article

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