The clinical value of boredom. A procedure for reducing inappropriate sexual interests.
A combination of aversive therapy and orgasmic reconditioning failed to produce the expected changes in sexual activities and arousal patterns. A procedure that involved verbalizing deviant fantasies while engaged in continual masturbation for nine sessions each of 1 1/2 hours duration, led to marked changes in sexual interests in an appropriate direction.
D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D001348:Aversive Therapy; D001887:Boredom; D005329:Fetishism, Psychiatric / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008418:Masturbation; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010413:Penis / Q000502:physiology; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011902:Rape