Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
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Reclaiming sexuality in female incest survivors Lynda Dykes Talmadge & Sharon Crews Wallace To cite this article: Lynda Dykes Talmadge & Sharon Crews Wallace (1991) Reclaiming sexuality in female incest survivors, Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 17:3, 163-182, DOI: 10.1080/00926239108404341 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00926239108404341
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Reclaiming Sexuality in Female Incest Survivors
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L Y N D A DYKES TAI,MADGE und SHARON CREWS WALLACE
This paper presents a comparison of female incest survivor sex therapy patienls and other sex therapy patients. The focus is on family-oj-origm dynamics and processes of teuching about sexuality, self-image and resulting interpersonal issues. The study also discusses nonincest survivor and incest survivor sex therapy clients with low sexual desire, their eunluation and treatment. T h e incidence of sexual abuse victims in our culture has been reported as high as o n e in four girls and one in seven boys.' Some believe these estimates niay even be low. T h e frequency of sexual problems (such as anxiety and arousal, desire, and satisfaction problems) among incest survivors is also being documented.*-' More recently, special treatment issues of incest survivors in sex and marital therapy have been explored.".
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LEARNING SEXUALITY Although sexual feeling is instinctive in humans, as in other primates, learning processes determine how sexuality is expressed by a particular individual. Is Humans learn to override their instincts with the sophistication of their cognitive p r o c e ~ s e s . 'l~Iow we behave sexually, whether alone or with another, takes place in one or more of the following expressive domains: cognitive-behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual. Learning is the mediating process that often determines an actual response or experience. All of us learn about sexuality from o u r culture and its agents, both public a n d private: government, religion, school, media, family, and peers. T h e processes of our learning include didactic teaching, indirect teaching, modeling, and experiencing. All sex therapy clients have ~
Lynda Dykes Talmadge. I'h.D., is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia, and on the adjunrt Iiculry of Emory llniversity and Georgia State University. Sharon Crews Wallace. Ph.D., is i i i pi-ivate praclice in Atlanta.
ISSN: 0092-623X (Print) 1521-0715 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/usmt20
Reclaiming sexuality in female incest survivors Lynda Dykes Talmadge & Sharon Crews Wallace To cite this article: Lynda Dykes Talmadge & Sharon Crews Wallace (1991) Reclaiming sexuality in female incest survivors, Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 17:3, 163-182, DOI: 10.1080/00926239108404341 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00926239108404341
Published online: 14 Jan 2008.
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Date: 07 November 2015, At: 14:29
Reclaiming Sexuality in Female Incest Survivors
Downloaded by [Deakin University Library] at 14:29 07 November 2015
L Y N D A DYKES TAI,MADGE und SHARON CREWS WALLACE
This paper presents a comparison of female incest survivor sex therapy patienls and other sex therapy patients. The focus is on family-oj-origm dynamics and processes of teuching about sexuality, self-image and resulting interpersonal issues. The study also discusses nonincest survivor and incest survivor sex therapy clients with low sexual desire, their eunluation and treatment. T h e incidence of sexual abuse victims in our culture has been reported as high as o n e in four girls and one in seven boys.' Some believe these estimates niay even be low. T h e frequency of sexual problems (such as anxiety and arousal, desire, and satisfaction problems) among incest survivors is also being documented.*-' More recently, special treatment issues of incest survivors in sex and marital therapy have been explored.".
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LEARNING SEXUALITY Although sexual feeling is instinctive in humans, as in other primates, learning processes determine how sexuality is expressed by a particular individual. Is Humans learn to override their instincts with the sophistication of their cognitive p r o c e ~ s e s . 'l~Iow we behave sexually, whether alone or with another, takes place in one or more of the following expressive domains: cognitive-behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual. Learning is the mediating process that often determines an actual response or experience. All of us learn about sexuality from o u r culture and its agents, both public a n d private: government, religion, school, media, family, and peers. T h e processes of our learning include didactic teaching, indirect teaching, modeling, and experiencing. All sex therapy clients have ~
Lynda Dykes Talmadge. I'h.D., is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia, and on the adjunrt Iiculry of Emory llniversity and Georgia State University. Sharon Crews Wallace. Ph.D., is i i i pi-ivate praclice in Atlanta.
