Review of CCH Seminar presented by Julie Lorenz February 2007

By Doug Strandly

Julie Lorenz

 Her studies on sexual addiction have identified that:

• High levels of anxiety can trigger sexual addiction.
• Deviant behaviour may come out (ie: be related to the therapist) after other (presenting) issues have been covered. The ‘dark secret’ is given permission to be released once the client has formed sufficient trust with the therapist, and is often ‘not’ the reason the client initiated therapy.
• ‘Frotters’ - and the art of ‘Frottage’
• These people (like all who have sexual disorders) require trust to be built between the therapist and client and great compassion from the therapist to avoid judging the client before understanding the underlying causes that triggered the behaviour.

Following a discussion session in groups, Julie then discussed how pornography is now playing a huge part in society, or more specifically, is now ‘part’ of society with the huge range of formats in which it can be delivered including:

• Internet websites
• Email
• SMS (text) messages
• Phone sex (call me, call me now …!)
• Internet dating (sites specifically for sex)
• Traditional pornographic magazines - now almost mainstream