Category: Subjects Needed

Adults who have sexual thoughts or fantasies that involve minors are being asked to participate in a study being conducted by Siri Gillespie, a PhD candidate at Widener University’s Center for Human Sexuality Studies, with consultation with B4U-ACT. If you meet the requirements, a link to participate is below:

Here is a flier provided by the researcher, with additional information. Click below to open the document in a new tab.

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B4U-ACT is collaborating with Mary Morris, a student researcher at Adler University, to support a study on the development and understanding of sexual identities of minor-attracted people. English-speaking minor-attracted people are invited to participate in an audio-only interview on this topic.

Potential participants are asked to contact the researcher at the following email address:
identitystudy@protonmail.com

The following is a message from the researcher with more information about the study:

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My name as Mary Morris and I am a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Adler University, in Vancouver, Canada. As part of my degree, I am studying the way that minor-attracted persons develop and understand their sexual identity. I am also looking at the emotional side of that, especially emotions like shame, guilt, and pride. I hope that my research will help mental health professionals support MAPs better. My research is supervised by Dr. Michael Sheppard.

I am looking for participants for this study.

You are able to participate in the study if:

• • You are 19 or older
• • You experience sexual and/or romantic attraction to minors (minors are children who haven’t gone through puberty, or teens who are going through puberty)
• • You are comfortable speaking and reading English
• • You want to talk about your sexual identity, how you feel about it now, and how you have felt about it in the past
• • You have two hours to talk to me about your experiences
• • You are comfortable using Zoom (it will be audio-only)

You should not participate in this study if:

• • You know the student researcher
• • You currently experience severe distress related to your minor attraction and think that talking to me would make it worse (e.g., talking about minor attraction with me would move you from a 6/10 level of distress to an 8/10 level of distress).

Mary Morris
Student Researcher, Doctor of Clinical Psychology Program
Adler University (Vancouver Campus)
Email : identitystudy@protonmail.com  

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Further information and email links are available in the poster below: (Click to view as pdf)

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Participation in this study has now closed. Thank you to all who participated and supported this research!

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People self-identifying as minor-attracted persons are being asked to participate in research being conducted by Dr. Rebecca Lievesley and Dr. Craig Harper at Nottingham Trent University, with consultation from B4U-ACT. The research includes two separate surveys, which are described in greater detail below.

Here is a message from Dr. Lievesley, the principal investigator for this research, with further information:

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Hi,

I’m Rebecca, a senior lecturer and researcher at Nottingham Trent University in the UK.  My colleague, Craig Harper, and I are currently recruiting participants for two surveys – one looking at self management of sexual attraction, and the second looking at help seeking and disclosure. Further details and the links are below.

Survey 1 overview:
This anonymous survey is looking at self-management of attraction. It asks questions about your sexual attractions, behaviours and wellbeing. It does not ask for any identifiable information and does not record IP addresses so the responses cannot be traced back to you. It will take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.  The link to the survey is below – the first page provides full information about the study and then you can choose whether or not to take part.
https://ntupsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dhiF46JW2aa7roy

Survey 2 overview: 
This anonymous survey is looking at disclosure and help seeking. It asks questions about your sexual attractions, and your experiences of disclosing your sexual attraction to others and seeking any support related to your attraction, as well as questions around wellbeing. It does not ask for any identifiable information and does not record IP addresses so the responses cannot be traced back to you. It will take approximately 10-20 minutes to complete.  The link to the survey is below – the first page provides full information about the study and then you can choose whether or not to take part.  
https://ntupsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0oAdI4gB98MdJwW

If you have any questions please email me on Rebecca.Lievesley@ntu.ac.uk. Please also feel free to share and post elsewhere. 

Thank you, 

Rebecca 

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