Exploring the role of child sexual abuse and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in gay and bisexual men reporting compulsive sexual behavior

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 413-422

  Blain, Leah M ^a   Muench, Fred ^b   Morgenstern, Jon ^b   Parsons, Jeffrey T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b Yale School of Medicine   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Child sexual abuse; Compulsive sexual behavior; Gay and bisexual men; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Sexual addiction; Sexual compulsivity

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BISEXUAL MALE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861970943     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: 18737757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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