Special Issue: Sexuality, Sexual Abuse, and LGBTQ+ Issues within Cults, Coercive Control Environments, and Religious Institutions.
Guest Editor: Dr. Doni Whitsett, whitsett@usc.edu
In conjunction with The International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (IJCAM) editorial review board, the special issue guest editor issues a call for full-length manuscripts emphasizing “Sexuality and Sexual Abuse within Cults, Coercive Control Environments, and Religious Institutions.”
The International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (IJCAM) is the peer-reviewed, flagship journal of the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA). The purpose of the journal is to publish rigorous scholarly work focusing on abuse, coercive control, and manipulation in organizations, environments, and relationships. The International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (IJCAM) encourages, supports, and reports on the work of researchers, mental health professionals, and social scientists who have studied the common sociological and/or psychological dynamics underlying different forms of coercion, abuse, and manipulation across diverse contexts.
In conjunction with the IJCAM editorial review board, the guest editors issue a call for manuscripts emphasizing sexuality and sexual abuse within cults, coercive control environments, and religious institutions.
Historically, sexuality, sexual/affectional orientation, and gender identity have been used as a means of control and manipulation within abusive and coercive environments and relationships. The control may take various forms, from pressure to engage in sex on the one hand to prohibition against any sexual contact before marriage, pressure to have many children, and pressure to abort a fetus. Controlled environments may prescribe specific sexual practices and prohibit others such as one’s choice of a sexual partner.
Sexually controlled environments may also put members at risk for sexual abuse; these can lead to the distortion of healthy sexuality, accompanied by feelings of shame, guilt, and a variety of depressive and anxiety disorders. Recovery from these groups can be complex, requiring a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics that contribute to the symptoms.
The editors are soliciting full length manuscripts that discuss these issues as well as providing solutions to improve the sexual, mental, physical, and spiritual health of those who have experienced sexual control and sexual abuse in coercive control environments and relationships.
Example topics include:
>Purity Culture and its effects on sexuality in relationships
>Patriarchy and effects on sexuality
>Sexuality used as a recruiting tool for cults
>Sexual abuse by pastors, preachers, church leaders
>Sexual control in specific cultic or coercive/high demand groups
>Sexual control in one-on-one intimate relationship
>Reproductive coercion and birth control
>Sexual Consent in cultic or coercive and high demand/control groups
>Sexual/Affectional orientation in a cultic or coercive high control group
>Gender identity control in a coercive group
>Other topics as relevant
Authors should follow the ICSA Author Guidelines: https://www.
Submit manuscripts to ijcaminfo@gmail.com. Authors should note that their submission is for this special issue. Manuscripts are accepted in English, French, and Spanish.
Each manuscript will go through a blind review process.
Special Issue Proposed Timeline
April 30, 2023. Full Length Manuscripts Due
June 15 , 2023. Feedback Given and Manuscript Status to Authors by Blind Reviewers and Guest Editors
July 15, 2023. Second Draft Due with Feedback to Guest Editors
Sept 1, 2023. Final Submission to Guest Editors and Approval from IJCAM Editor/Assistant to Editor
Oct 30, 2023. Articles Published in an Advance Online Format
For additional information or questions, please contact the Special Issue Editor: Dr. Doni Whitsett (whitsett@usc.edu) or the IJCAM Executive Editor, Dr. Cyndi Matthews (ijcaminfo@gmail.com www.ijcam
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