NCJ Number
145844
Journal
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Volume: 2 Issue: 3 Dated: (1993) Pages: 81-88
Date Published
1993
Length
8 pages
Annotation
Satiation therapy, a behavioral treatment approach which uses a flooding of the offender's own atypical sexual fantasies with the paradoxical intent of reducing deviant fantasy by boring the patient, has been used in programs for male sex offenders.
Abstract
This study used a sample of 15 adolescent males, charged with sex offenses committed against children, to determine whether verbal satiation was effective in reducing arousal to deviant sexual stimuli. The participants completed eight individual verbal satiation sessions within 13 weeks, as part of a cognitive-behavioral treatment package. Upon completion of the sessions, the participants undertook a psychophysiologic assessment to measure penile reactions during 19 2-minute descriptions of various sexual interactions. The results showed an overall decrease in arousal to atypical stimuli in 14 of the 15 subjects. The findings also showed that younger offenders were more difficult to satiate and that it was more difficult to reduce arousal when the offender and victim were close in age, but that verbal satiation may be sufficient to target atypical arousal in some adolescents. 1 table and 5 references