Victor B. Cline is a University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 Ph D in Psychology

Psychology

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, a research scientist with the George Washington University

George Washington University

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’s Human Resources Research Office, and a Emeritus Professor in Psychology at the University of Utah

University of Utah

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. His private clinical practice is in Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

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Career

Victor Cline is involved with multiple family-oriented organizations, such as Marriage and Family Enrichment (which he co-founded) and The Lighted Candle Society. Cline's research area is on sex addiction, especially topics pertaining to pornography

Pornography

Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...

. 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

Sexual abuse

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 and sexual assault

Sexual assault

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. Cline is also a behavioral scientist with publications in the area of “media and pornography effects.” As a practitioner, he has involved in the treatment of sexual addict

Sexual addiction

Sexual addiction is a popular model to explain hypersexuality—sexual urges, behaviors, or thoughts that appear extreme in frequency or feel out of one's control...

s or compulsives including many pedophiles and their victims.

Due to his studies on the effects of pornography

Pornography

Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...

, Cline has been utilized as an expert witness

Expert witness

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 in court cases and by the US Judiciary Committee

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

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. Cline's opinion was requested by the Commission on Child Online Protection, which is associated with San Jose State University

San José State University

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. Cline provided the following testimony:
According to 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."

Publications

• Cline, VB (1994). "Pornography effects: Empirical and clinical evidence" In D. Zillmann, J. Bryant, & ACHuston (Eds.), Media, children and the family: Social scientific, psychodynamic and clinical perspectives pp. 229–247

External links

• Pornography's Effects on Adults and Children by Victor Cline.
• Treatment and Healing of Pornographic and Sexual Addictions by Victor Cline.
• Obscenity—How It Affects Us, How We Can Deal with It by Victor Cline
• Publications on Google Scholar.