Hani Miletski
Template:BLP sources Hani Miletski (born 1962) is a sexologist, and sex therapist living in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She specializes as a trainer and supervisor in the field, in sex addiction, and also works within the criminal justice system.
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. She studied at The Catholic University of America and gained her doctorate at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and worked within the Fogel Foundation from 1994 until 2003 before leaving to focus on her own private practice.
Published academic work
Miletski published the first brief overview of mother-son incest research. She shed light on a topic that has suffered societal neglect because of the taboo nature of incest, the widespread denial of all forms of female sexual aggression, and social double standards that impede recognition of female sex crimes. 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 "monumental"[1] and "pioneering"[2] 1999 book on zoophilia, 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.[3]
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.[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
References
- ↑ 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"
- ↑ Review by Vern Bullough (distinguished professor emeritus at SUNY, Outstanding Professor at California State University, past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and winner of the Alfred Kinsey Award for distinguished sex research) published in Journal of Sex Research, May 2003: "In sum, this study is a path-breaking one and gives us a better understanding of the topic. Much work still needs to be done, but Miletski should be complimented for her pioneering efforts..." (Online version)
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ 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]
