Self-reported nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and sex as self-injury (SASI):Relationship to abuse, risk behaviors, trauma symptoms, self-esteem and attachment

A new and relatively unexplored area of interest, potentially in the field of self-injury, has developed from recent clinical reports and testimonies from adolescents and young adults who describe deliberately using destructive sexual activities as a means of self-injury (Jenstav and Meissner, 2016; Jonsson and Lundstr öm Mattsson, 2012). The definition and conceptualization of this behavior is still at an early stage. One definitional suggestion was put forward in a report from the Swedish Children's Welfare Foundation (Jonsson and Lundström Mattsson, 2012): “when one has a pattern of seeking sexual relations involving psychological or physical harm to oneself…” (p.19).
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