Childhood sexual abuse trauma and compulsive sexual behavior: The experience among adult Puerto Rican men and women
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2025-12-30
Jose Osvaldo Reyes
Zulmarie Hernández Bello
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6190-8296
Abstract
Our research addressed the experiences of compulsive sexual behavior (CSC) among Puerto Rican men and women and how they manifested themselves subsequent to the traumatic experience of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). We utilized a qualitative study design with a phenomenological approach and analyzed narratives using Wolcott's (1994) model. The participants were nine informants (two men and seven women) who, from their self-perception, manifested CSC at some point in their lives. We conducted semi-structured interviews and five categories emerged from the narratives, which gave qualitative structure to the findings. The emerging categories were: non-normative sexual debut, calming my demons, compulsive sexual behavior, broken mirror, and dark life. These describe in detail how participants experienced CSC, its intersection with CSA experiences, and the meaning they attached to it. We discuss how these dimensions are linked to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and to other nosological propositions related to hypersexuality, and address how technology contributes to sustaining these behaviors.
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sexual abuse, trauma, compulsive sexual behavior, technology
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https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2016.1269144
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Villancourt-Morel, M.P., Dugal, C., Poirier-Steward, R., Godbout, N., Labadie, C., Sabourin, S. & Lussier, Y. (2016). Extradyatic sexual involvement and sexual compulsivity in male and female sexual abuse. The Journal of Sex Research, 53(4-5), 614-625.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2015.1061633
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1200-0
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https://doi.org/10.1080/10720162.2019.1582379
Cooper, A, & Griffin-Shelley, E. (2002). The Internet: The next sexual revolution. In A. Cooper (Ed.), Sex and the Internet: A guided book for clinicians (pp. 1-15). Brunner-Routledge.
Creswell, J. W. (2003). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches (2nd edition). Sage Publications.
Delmonico, D. L., & Griffin, E. J. (2015). Sexual compulsivity, assessment and treatment. In K. M. Hertlein, G. R. Weeks, & N. Gambescia (Eds.), Systemic sex therapy (2nd ed., pp. 235-254). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Derbyshire, K. L. & Grant, J. E. (2015). Compulsive sexual behavior: A review of the literature. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 4(2), 37–43.
https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.4.2015.003
Dickenson, J. A., Gleason, N., Coleman, E., & Miner, M. H. (2018). Prevalence of distress associated with difficulty controlling sexual urges, feelings, and behaviors in the United States. JAMA Network Open, 1(7), e184468.
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.4468
Earle, R., & Isenberg, R. (2018). Overview of presentations of sexual addictions. In T. Birchard, & J. Benfield (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of sexual addiction (pp. 41-54). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315639512
Echeburúa, E. (2012). ¿Existe realmente la adicción al sexo? Revista Adicciones, 24(4), 281-286.
https://doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.77
Ferre, M. C., Hudson, L., Katehakis, A., MacDaniel, K. & Valentin-Anderson, A. (2012). Etiology of female sex and love addiction: A biopsychosocial perspective. In M. C. Ferre, (Ed.), Making advances: A comprehensive guide for treating female sex and love addicts (pp. 44-66). Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health.
Friedrich, W. N. (2007). Children with sexual behavior problems: Family-based attachment-focused therapy. W. W. Norton & Company
Giménez-García, C., Ballester-Arnal, R., & Daneback, K. (2021). The Internet and CSBD. In R. Balon, & P. Briken (Eds.), Compulsive sexual behavior disorder: Understanding, assessment and treatment (pp. 35-52). American Psychiatric Association Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9781615379279.lg04
Gola, M., & Kraus, S. W. (2021). Sexual addiction vs CSBD. In R. Balon & P. Briken (Eds.), Compulsive sexual behavior disorder: Understanding, assessment and treatment (pp. 7-20). American Psychiatric Association Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9781615379279.lg02
Grubbs, J. B., Kraus, S. W., & Perry, S. L. (2019). Self-reported addiction to pornography in a nationally representative sample: The roles of use habits, religiousness, and moral incongruence. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 8(1), 88–93.
https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.134
Kafka, M. P. (2010). Hypersexual disorder: A proposed diagnosis for DSM-V. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39(2), 377-400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-009-9574-7
Kafka, M. P. (2014). What happened to hypersexual disorder? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43(7), 1259-1261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0326-y
Katehakis, A. (2018). The female sex of sexual addiction. In T. Birchard, & J. Benfield (Eds.), The Routledge interna-tional handbook of sexual addiction (pp. 327-337). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315639512-29
Kowalewska, E., Gola, M., Kraus, S. W., & Lew-Starowicz, M. (2025). Spotlight on compulsive sexual behavior disorder: A systematic review of research on women. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treat-ment, 16, 2025-2043.
https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S221540
Kraus, S. W., Voon, V., & Potenza, M. N. (2016). Should compulsive sexual behavior be considered an addiction? Addiction, 111(12), 2097–2106.
https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13297
Kraus, S. W., Krueger, R. B., Briken, P., First, M. B., Stein, D. J., Kaplan, M. S., Voon, V., Abdo, C. H. N., Grant, J. E., Atalla, E., & Reed, G. M. (2018). Compulsive sexual behavior disorder in the ICD-11. World Psychiatry, 17(1), 109-110. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20499
Lewczuk, K., Glica, A., Nowakowska, I., Gola, M., & Grubbs, J. B. (2020). Evaluating pornography problems due to moral incongruence model. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 17(2), 300-311.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2019.11.259
Lucca Irrisarry, N., & Berríos Rivera, R. (2009). Investigación cualitativa: Fundamentos, diseños y estrategias (2da ed). Ediciones SM.
Maltz, W. (2024). Sex therapy with survivors of sexual abuse. In P. J. Kleinplatz (Ed.), New directions in sex therapy: Innovations and alternatives (3rd ed, pp. 223-240). Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388760
Meyer, D., Cohn, A., Robinson, B., Muse, F., Hughes, R. (2017). Persistent compli-cations of child sexual abuse: Sexually compulsive behaviors, attachment, and emotions. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 26(2), 140–157.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2016.1269144
McPherson, S., Clayton, S., Wood, H., Hiskey, S., & Andrews, L. (2013). The role of childhood experiences in the develop-ment of sexual compulsivity. Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, 20(4), 259-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/10720162.2013.803213
Neves. S. (2021). Compulsive sexual behaviors: A psycho-sexual treatment guide for clinicians. Routledge.
Reid, R. C., Carpenter, B. N. & Lloyd, T. Q. (2009). Assessing psychological symp-toms patterns of patients seeking help for hypersexual behavior. Sexual & Relationship Therapy, 24(1), 47-63.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14681990802702141
Reis, S. C., Park, K. E., Dionne, M. M., Kim, H. S., & Scanavino, M. D. T. (2023). Symptoms of depression (not anxiety) mediate the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and compulsive sexual behaviors in men. Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatría, 45(1), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.47626/1516-4446-2022-2584
Reyes, J. O. (2014). El acceso a la pornografía en la Internet y su efecto en niños y adolescentes. Revista tu Zona de Bienestar, mayo-junio, 12-15.
Rosenberg, K. P., Carnes, P. J. & Acevedo, B. P. (2021). Clinical evaluation of CSBD. In R. Balon, & P. Briken (Eds.), Compulsive sexual behavior disorder: Understand-ing, assessment and treatment (pp. 69-94). American Psychiatric Association Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9781615379279.lg06
Schaefer, G. A., & Ahlers, C. J. (2018). Sexual addiction: Terminology, definitions and conceptualization. In T. Birchard, & J. Benfield (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of sexual addiction (pp. 21-26). Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315639512
Scoglio, A. A. J., Chen, Y. L., Huang, K. J., Borgogna, N. C., Potenza, M. N., Blycker, G. R. & Kraus, S. W. (2025). Sexual trauma and compulsive sexual behavior in young men and women: A network analysis involving two samples. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 14(1), 166–177. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00074
Slavin, M. N., Scoglio, A. A., Blycker, G. R., Potenza, M. N. & Kraus, S. W. (2021). Child sexual abuse and compulsive sexual behavior: A systematic literature review. Current Addiction Report, 7(1), 76–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-020-00298-9
Southern, S. (2018). Whither sexual addiction? In T. Birchard & J. Benfield (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of sexual addiction (pp. 9-20). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315639512
Van der Kolk, B. (2017). El cuerpo lleva la cuenta: Cerebro, mente y cuerpo en la superación del trauma. Eleftheria.
Villancourt-Morel, M.P., Godbout, N., Labadie, C., Rintz, M., Lussier, Y. & Sabourin, S. (2015). Avoidant and com-pulsive sexual behaviors in male and female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 40, 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.10.024
Villancourt-Morel, M.P., Dugal, C., Poirier-Steward, R., Godbout, N., Labadie, C., Sabourin, S. & Lussier, Y. (2016). Extradyatic sexual involvement and sexual compulsivity in male and female sexual abuse. The Journal of Sex Research, 53(4-5), 614-625.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2015.1061633
Walton, M. T., & Bhullar, N. (2018). Compulsive sexual behavior as an impulse control disorder: Awaiting field studies data. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47(5), 1327–1331.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1200-0
Walton, M. T., Cantor, J. M., Bhullar, N. & Lykinns, A. D. (2017). Hypersexuality: A critical review and introduction to the “sexhavior cycle”. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46(8), 2231-2251.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1200-0
Wolcott, H. F. (1994). Transforming qualitative data: Description, analysis, and interpretation. Sage.
World Health Organization (2018). International classification of diseases and other related health problems (11th rev). World Health Organization.
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Childhood sexual abuse trauma and compulsive sexual behavior: The experience among adult Puerto Rican men and women. (2025). Puerto Rican Journal of Psychology, 36(2), 216-233. https://doi.org/10.55611/reps.3602.07
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Childhood sexual abuse trauma and compulsive sexual behavior: The experience among adult Puerto Rican men and women. (2025). Puerto Rican Journal of Psychology, 36(2), 216-233. https://doi.org/10.55611/reps.3602.07