Sexual Diversity and Sexual Offending - Research, Assessment, and Clinical Treatment in Psychosexual Therapy (Paperback)

Introducing an exciting and innovative edited text that helps health practitioners understand the contemporary ubiquitous presentations of sexual diversity that now occur within a therapeutic consultation. Internet cybersex has enabled individuals to be more open and explorative in their sexual repertoire than ever before, so therapists often find themselves working with clients presenting with issues of sexual diversity and sexual offending, sometimes with the latter being confused as being synonymous with the former. This book proposes to give researchers and clinicians the opportunity to explore aspects of sexual diversity with which they may be unfamiliar, for the reader to have confidence in understanding the issues being addressed and to know when the client may be crossing a line into illegal sexual behaviour. In doing so, the method of therapy offered can be more appropriate for the diverse lifestyles encountered in contemporary society.The book is divided into three sections: 'Walking the line', 'Pushing the line', and 'Crossing the line' - 'the line' essentially being social or legal mores, and how people's sexual practices can get them into difficulties, hence the need for a therapist at all. Part 1 normalises diversity issues as being more than just LGBT issues and elaborates these when men have sex with men, women have sex with women, and trangendered individuals struggle to find their own path. It includes discussion on BDSM issues within all sexuality realms, the use of toys and films for sex, and the desire for sex during terminal illness. Part 2 moves into greyer areas of pushing the line, to cover two aspects of paying for sex: one from a sex worker, and one from a therapeutic surrogate partner. It also elaborates on how the highs and lows of sex via the internet can straddle all three sections of this book. The last section covers therapeutic working with individuals who have crossed the line, and who need compassionate help and support as a consequence.Chapters cover individuals who have sex with animals, and adolescents and adults with a sexual interest in children, their therapeutic support, and help for the forensic law enforcement officers who have to investigate them.This book has an international authorship of highly respected therapists: Glyn Hudson Allez, M.P.Baretta, Mary Clegg, Juliet Grayson, Paula Hall, Jacob Jacobson, Marty Klein, John Lenkiewicz, Ari Istar Lev, JoAnn Loulan, Nomi Pitch, Shai Rotem, Mark Schoen, Peter Wells, & Stenio de Cassio Zequi.