Hani Miletski

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Hani Miletski (1962 - ) is a sexologist, and sex therapist living in Bethesda maryland USA. She specializes as a trainer and supervisor in the field, addiction, and also works within the criminal justice system.

She is notable for her "monumental"[1] 1999 study into the field of zoosexuality, 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] Her findings were later supported by several others in the field. The research was born from an attempt to research zoophilia in a patient, in the course of her work, and discovering there was no consistent body of work on the subject.[2]

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. She studied at the Catholic University of America and gained her doctorate at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality California and worked within the Fogel Foundation from 1994 until 2003 before leaving to focus on her own private practice.

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 1884444318

References

  1. Beetz (2002) section 5.2.25: "One of the most monumental and recent studies on human-animal sexual contact was conducted by Miletski in 1999"
  2. 2.0 2.1 Miletski states (p.1) that there was no solid body of research when she looked for information regarding a patient of hers who reported zoophilic interest, and that: "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."

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