Hani Miletski

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Hani Miletski, Ph.D., M.S.W., (born 1962) is a sexologist, and sex therapist living in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. She specializes as a trainer and supervisor in the field, in sex addiction, and also works within the criminal justice system. She is a certified Clinical Social Worker with a Master's degree in Social Work from the Catholic University of America, National School of Social Service, in Washington, DC. She studied at The Catholic University of America and gained her doctorate at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality

Early life

Miletski was born in Israel, and according to her website, moved to the United States as part of the Israeli embassy staff as Assistant Senior Representative of the Defense Mission to the U.S. for Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Programs.

Hani came to the United States from her native Israel in 1987 at the age of 25. She worked at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC as Assistant Senior Representative of the Israeli Mission for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). When she later completed her training, she continued to work in the press office there. During her graduate studies, she was employed as a sex therapist at the Fogel Foundation, Human Sexuality Institute, in Washington, DC. She then became a training consultant there and later director of the Human Sexuality Institute. In 2003, she left the Fogel Foundation to focus on her own practice in Bethesa, MD.

Hani was the first scientist to study zoophiles directly. Thanks to the newly emerged Internet, she was able to come into contact with “normal” zoophiles. Previous researchers only had access to legally or psychologically conspicuous people with zoosexual tendencies, which represented a negative selection that inevitably had a negative influence on the research results.

Her voluminous dissertation "Bestiality - Zoophilia: an exploratory study" resulted in the book Understanding Bestiality and Zoophilia

Published academic work

Miletski published the first brief overview of mother-son incest research. She shows that mother-son incest is more common than is thought and that most mothers who commit incest are sane.

Miletski is notable for her self-published 1999 book on zoophilia, Understanding Bestiality and Zoophilia, based mostly on her doctoral dissertation. Miletski successfully defended her dissertation, though it has never been published in any peer-reviewed journal. She once published a two-page abstract of her findings in the Scandinavian Journal of Sexology. The book compiles all discussion about sex with animals from academic sources throughout the 20th century, along with an historical overview of bestiality through the ages and in different cultures.

Miletski is notable for her 1999 book on zoophilia,[1] a comprehensive reference work and analysis combined with further research, which formally established whether a genuine orientation might exist (as opposed to a mere sexual fetish), and whether previous research in the field had erred in not fully recognizing this. Prior to her studies, the field was highly fragmented and reliable information for psychological purposes unclear.[2]

Miletski's study has never been published in any peer-reviewed journal. She once published a two-page abstract of her findings in the Scandinavian Journal of Sexology.[3]

Her voluminous dissertation "Bestiality - Zoophilia: an exploratory study" resulted in the book Understanding Bestiality and Zoophilia

She describes the genesis of this study in her article series The secret life of the zoophiles; Also known as The Hidden life of Zoophiles (Translated from a German Zoo Wiki)[4]

Books

  • Understanding Bestiality and Zoophilia (pub. 2002) ISBN 0-9716917-0-3 (book review)
  • Mother-Son Incest: The Unthinkable Broken Taboo (a brief overview of findings, pub. 1999) ISBN 1-884444-31-8

Articles

  • Zoophilia: Another Sexual Orientation? Archives of sexual behavior. 46.2017,1 Pages 39-42 Published online: 10 November 2016, doi:10.1007/s10508-016-0891-3
  • A history of bestiality In: Bestiality And Zoophilia: Sexual Relations With Animals (Anthrozoos) Pages. 1-22 (2005) ISBN 978-1-55753-412-5
  • Is zoophilia a sexual orientation? A study In: Bestiality And Zoophilia: Sexual Relations With Animals (Anthrozoos) Pages. 82-97 (2005) ISBN 978-1-55753-412-5
  • Zoophilia-Implications for Therapy Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 26.2001,2 Pages 85-89 doi:10.1080/01614576.2001.11074387
  • Hani Miletski: Understanding Bestiality and Zoophilia, East-West Publishing, LLC, ISBN 0971691703
  • Hani Miletski: Bestiality – Zoophilia: An exploratory study, Diss., The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. - San Francisco, CA, October, 1999
  • Hani Miletski: Bestiality/Zoophilia: An Exploratory Study. (2000, December). In: Scandinavian Journal of Sexology. (4). 149-150.
  • Hani Miletski: Mother-Son Incest: The Unthinkable Broken Taboo, Brandon, Vt: The Safer Society Foundation, Inc., 1995. 2nd ed. ISBN 1-884444-31-8

See also

References

  1. ↑ Review by Vern Bullough published in Journal of Sex Research, May 2003: (Online version)
  2. ↑ Miletski states (p. 1) that there was information was sparse, often contradictory and not easily located, and no solid body of research or consensus in psychology, when she looked for information regarding a patient of hers who reported zoophilic interest. She described how:

    "Throughout the literature review, it is very obvious that authors perceive sexual relations with animals in very different ways. Definitions of various behaviors and attitudes are often conflicting, leaving the reader confused. Terms such as 'sodomy,' 'zoorasty,' 'zoosexuality,' as well as 'bestiality' and 'zoophilia' are often used, each having a different meaning depending on the author."

    The book review states that

    "It seems clear from Miletski's summary of the existing literature that very little is actually known about bestiality and there is not anything approaching a consensus as to why animal-human sexual contacts occur... many of the existing reports and studies should be classified more as pseudo-science than serious research."

  3. ↑ Miletski, H. (2000) Bestiality and Zoophilia: An Exploratory Study. Scandinavian Journal of Sexology. Vol. 3 (4), pp 149–150: – Miletski's book "Understanding bestiality and zoophilia" (2002) was an expansion of her initial dissertation "Bestiality and Zoophilia: An exploratory study" (1999). An abstract of the latter was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Sexology (now discontinued), the official journal of the Nordic Association for Clinical Sexology (NACS). Peer review evidence according to Kinsey Institute of Sexology [1] "...an international, peer-reviewed, quarterly journal in English..." The paper was cited by a UK government report into extreme pornography in 2007, Ministry of Justice Research Series 11/07 [2]
  4. ↑ Zeta Pin Zoo wiki https://web.archive.org/web/20070519033738/http://zoowiki.zetapin.de/index.php?title=Hani_Miletski

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