Dr.Victor B. Cline is a University of California, Berkley Ph D in Psychology, a research scientist with the George Washington University’s Human Resources Research Office, and a Emeritus Professor in Psychology at the University of Utah. His private clinical practice is in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1]
Career
He is involved with multiple family-oriented organizations, such as Marriage and Family Enrichment, which he co-founded, and The Lighted Candle Society.[citation needed] Cline's research area is on sex addiction, especially topics pertaining to pornography. Dr. Cline is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in marital and family counseling and the treatment of sexual compulsions and addictions. He also works with the victims of sexual abuse and sexual assault. Dr. Cline is also an behavioral scientist with approximately 85 publications, some of which are in the area of “media and pornography effects.” In the career spanning over 30 years he has treated approximately 350 male sexual addicts or compulsives including many pedophiles and their victims.[1][2]
Dr. Cline has also be referred as witness by commissions, studies focusing on effects of Pornography. One of the commissions to refer to Dr.Cline was Commission on Child Online Protection, San Jose State University, at which Dr.Cline testified,[1]
I find that the use of child pornography in time desensitizes the viewer to its pathology no matter how aberrant or disturbing. It becomes acceptable and preferred. The man always escalates to more deviant material, and the acting out continues and escalates despite very painful consequences such as destruction of the family, loss of spouse, children, job, health, or incarceration after committing criminal acts.
According to Dr.Cline, pornography can plunge a person into the pornography cycle of addiction, escalation, desensitization and acting out sexually. The cost of addiction includes "divorce, loss of family and problems with the law," and it escalates so that the addict requires more deviancy in order to get a "high" or "sexual turn-on."[3]
External links
- Pornography's Effects on Adults and Children by Victor Cline.
- Treatment and Healing of Pornographic and Sexual Addictions by Victor Cline.
Notes
- ^ a b c (PDF) Victor Cline, Ph.D., http://www.copacommission.org/meetings/hearing3/cline.test.pdf
- ^ Cline, Dr. Victor B. (April 1999). "Treatment & Healing of Pornographic and Sexual Addictions". http://www.ldsr.org/info/drcline.phtml. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. "In over 25 years I have treated approximately 350 males afflicted with sexual addictions (sometimes referred to as: sexual compulsions). In about 94% of the cases I have found that pornography was a contributor, facilitator or direct causal agent in the acquiring of these sexual illnesses. Patrick Carnes, the leading U.S. researcher in this area, also reports similar findings. In his research on nearly 1000 sex addicts as reported in his "Dan 't Call it Love", he stated: "Among all addicts surveyed 90% of the men and 77% of the women reported pornography as significant to their addiction.""
- ^ Martinez, Lily (2009-10-03). "Romance may begin in the kitchen" (in english). elapsotimes. http://www.elpasotimes.com/living/ci_10623509. Retrieved on 2008-10-08.
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