SASH

The Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH) is a nonprofit multidisciplinary organization dedicated to scholarship, training, and resources for promoting sexual health and overcoming problematic sexual behaviors.*

 

*sex addiction, hypersexual disorder, out of control sexual behavior, sexual impulsivity, sexual abuse.

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 Research is being conducted to examine the connection between attachment styles and the intensity and frequency of sexual thoughts, fantasies and behaviors. We are looking for psychotherapists who are willing to help us recruit subjects for this research. Subjects recruited for this research will be completing an Internet based survey through surveymonkey. This survey will take approximately 30 minutes and participation is anonymous. This study is being implemented by The New York City Sexuality, Attachment and Trauma (SAT) Project and is under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania and is IRB approved. The SAT Project is an outpatient clinic and research think-tank, based in New York City, that provides therapeutic intervention using effective and evidence-based treatment techniques to help individuals with sexual and relationship difficulties and conducts cutting-edge research on the etiology and treatment of out of control relational and sexual behavior.

If you have access to clients who display out of control sexual behavior as well as those that do not and are instead presenting with a different mental health issue and you are willing to refer subjects to an anonymous internet survey please access the following link for more information regarding the study. This link will also give you information as to how to contact the researchers:

http://www.sexualityproject.com/research/

In order to promote new investigators to launch pilot projects in this area, SASH has created the Corley Research Scholarship Award.

For more information regarding qualifications, click the button below to download the qualifications document.

Project Title: Disclosure of relapse after a period of recovery

This research project is looking for self-identified sex addicts and partners of sex addicts to complete a survey about their experiences with disclosure, especially of relapse of sexual addiction. The survey will also ask about the experience with and impact of disclosure of relapse. The survey takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and has been approved by the Duquesne University Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects and Santé Center for Healing.

Participants will not be paid for their participation, but it is hoped that by participating, researchers will learn how best to sex addicts and partners of sex addicts disclose information about problematic sexual behavior.

The only qualifications to participate are that you must be at least 18 years old and be a self-identified sex addict or partner of a sex addict.

For Sex Addicts, in order to voluntarily participate, please visit the following link:

http://surveymonkey.com/s/addictdisclosure

For Partners, in order to voluntarily participate, please visit the following link:

http://surveymonkey.com/s/partnerdisclosure