70 Years of Recidivism Research
What do distinguished researchers do during COVID-19 lock downs? A huge meta-analysis of recidivism research for sexual offending from 70 years of studies.
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How to Un Villain: Listening with an Open Mind
We all have known a villain or two. Even the sex addiction treatment community has villains. Why are these people villains?
An Education about Asexuality
In years of doing this work, I had not seen any work specifically about asexuality. This book gave me a serious education about asexuality.
Do Minor Attracted Persons Make Your Skin Crawl?
What are Minor Attracted Persons (MAPs)? Let’s talk about the things that make us uncomfortable and learn in the process.
Sex Offender Treatment: Helpful or Placebo?
In most jurisdictions in the United States, a person convicted of a sex crime is mandated to sex offender treatment. But what makes for effective treatment?
Sex Doll Use: Is it Deviance, Addiction, or Something Else?
The sex offender treatment world tends to label unusual practices “deviant” and conventional sex practices just fine. But where does that leave sex doll use?
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?
Girls and Sexting
I am writing to you today from the annual conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). Each year, in addition to traditional talks, there are poster presentations. Today, Marion Desfachelles, a Ph.D. student at the University of Montreal, presented a poster on her research on girls and sexting. Background on Canadian Laws […]
