Sexual addiction, sexual compulsivity, sexual impulsivity, or what? Toward a theoretical model

Journal of Sex Research, August, 2004 by John Bancroft, Zoran Vukadinovic

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Manuscript accepted November 4, 2003

This study was made possible, in part, by NIMH Grant R01-MH60519-02.

Address correspondence to John Bancroft, M.D., Director, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Morrison Hall 313, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-3700; e-mail: jbancrof@indiana.edu.

John Bancroft and Zoran Vukadinovic

The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University