a behavioral treatment aimed at altering the deviant sexual preferences of individuals who commit sex offenses, including rape, pedophilia, and child molestation. The technique has been inappropriately applied to alter homosexual behavior as well. In one version of masturbatory satiation, participants masturbate for prolonged periods of time—continuing even after orgasm—so that the act eventually becomes unsatisfying. In another version, known as verbal satiation, participants voice their deviant sexual fantasies while masturbating past orgasm, continuing until the deviant sexual imagery is no longer arousing. In a third version, participants masturbate to orgasm using appropriate sexual fantasies and afterward continue masturbating to their deviant sexual fantasies in order to pair the pleasurable experience of orgasm with appropriate stimuli and the deviant behavior with excessive, unsatisfying masturbation. All three forms of masturbatory
satiation lack a sound empirical basis for effectiveness.