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Abstract
Assessments of sexual compulsivity were included in an exploratory study of 30 men who had a history of cruising for sexual partners on college campuses. A quantitative measure of sexual compulsivity was used to assess sexual compulsivity scores and to make comparisons with other populations from previous research. Qualitative data were analyzed to assess the extent to which cruisers described consequences of their behavior that have been suggested by professionals as indicative of sexual compulsivity. Some cruisers had characteristics indicative of sexual compulsivity and many described negative or potentially negative outcomes that would be anticipated to result from, or that are perhaps related to, compulsive sexual behavior. While the findings may need to be considered within the cultural and developmental context of men on college campuses, they provide insights into the need for additional training for health and social service providers and into the direction of future research in this area.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors wish to thank the community of cruisers that helped to make this study possible. Support for the original research was provided by a grant from Lascivious Exhibitions Safer Sexuality Outreach Program of Bloomington, Indiana and by funds from the William L. Yarber Professorship, both awarded to the first author. During the production of this manuscript, the second author wishes to acknowledge support in the form of center grant P30 MH43520 from the National Institute of Mental Health to the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Anke A. Ehrhardt, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, and NRSA T32 MH19139, Behavioral Sciences Research in HIV Infection, Anke A. Ehrhardt, Ph.D., Program Director.
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*CitationKalichman & Rompa, 1995; If a summed score was presented in the cited work, it was divided by 10 for consistency, as the scores on this measure are reported on either a scale of 0–4 or on a scale of 0–40 (summed scores).