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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(1) A comparison of the heterosexual and gay subgroups showed that there were some significant differences in our trait measures. The homosexual group scored higher on SIS1 (30.2 vs. 27.9, p < .001), ZDPR (58.3 vs. 50.1, p < .001), MS-1 (4.1 vs. 3.6, p = .04), and MS-3 (4.6 vs. 4.1, p = .03).

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