How to Protect Your Child from Sextortion
The FBI’s statement, released yesterday, about sexual extortion, or sextortion of children is informative, but too little, too late.
Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Research: CSAM on the Dark Web
Protect Children is a non-governmental not-for-profit organization, that recently published the results of their survey, which looked at CSAM on the Dark Web.
Sex Abuse in the News
When teaching my graduate Human Sexuality course, we begin class with “Sex in the News.” Usually, this means we’re talking about Sex Abuse in the News.
Book Review: Sibling Sexual Abuse
I was excited to read this book. That may sound odd to someone not in my field, but there is so little published on Sibling Sexual Abuse…
Institutional Abuse and How to Predict and Prevent it
Institutional abuse, stories of sexual harm from schools and churches, seems to be in the news almost every day. How can we try to predict and prevent it?
What BDSM Can Teach Us About Consent
Consent is a hot button topic today. The #metoo movement continues to grow and the supreme court nomination brought to light the suffering of many sexual abuse survivors. The general public is starting to realize that we do not teach consent to our children Those of us who work in the fields of sexuality (sex […]
What Young Women’s Experiences with Sexting can tell us about Compliance, Coercion and Consent
The #MeToo movement has brought long overdue attention to the experiences of women who have been victims of sexual abuse and harassment. If you look behind the sensational headlines, the movement has sparked a much-needed conversation about consent. I have previously written about how we teach consent in our practice in a blog on the […]
Three Things to Teach your Child About Safe Sexting
If we choose to face reality, we know that teen sexting has become a normative part of adolescent culture. Of course, not all adolescents are doing it, but many are sexting. What we learned from the years of the “JUST SAY NO” campaign and more years of research is that preaching abstinence just doesn’t work. […]
Parents – Get Your Kids off Adult Dating Apps
I engaged in prevention and education work as a direct result of working as a forensic psychologist in the field of sexual addiction and sexual offending. Despite my efforts and the efforts of many others more well-known than myself, we continue to see an increase in cybersex issues with teens. This month, I have had […]
We Are Failing Male Sexual Abuse Survivors
I specialize in working with sexual addiction and problematic sexual behavior. Most of my clients are men. Working with male addicts for over a dozen years has taught me, in person, that many more boys are sexually abused than the numbers tell us. These boys do not tell anyone and do not seek help. These […]
