Victor Cline

Victor Cline was involved with multiple family-oriented organizations, such as Marriage and Family Enrichment (which he co-founded) and The Lighted Candle Society.{{cite news |title=Group trying to snuff out porn |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=DSNB&d_place=DSNB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1028FE0B770ABBBD&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=The Deseret News |date=May 13, 2004 |access-date=April 29, 2010 |format=fee required }} Cline's research area was on sex addiction, especially topics pertaining to pornography.{{cite news |title=An addiction to porn can be overcome, psychologist says, Web has increased the availability of lewd materials |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=DSNB&d_place=DSNB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F369BD32AAB5EBA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=The Deseret News |date=February 8, 2001 |access-date=April 29, 2010 }} Cline was a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in marital and family counseling and the treatment of sexual compulsions and addictions. He also worked with the victims of sexual abuse and sexual assault. Cline was also a behavioral scientist with publications in the area of “media and pornography effects.” As a practitioner, he was involved in the treatment of sexual addicts or compulsives including many pedophiles and their victims.{{cite web|url=http://www.ldsr.org/info/drcline.phtml|title=Treatment & Healing of Pornographic and Sexual Addictions|last=Cline|first=Victor B.|date=April 1999| quote= In over 25 years I have treated approximately 350 males afflicted with sexual addictions (sometimes referred to as: sexual compulsions). In about 94% of the cases I have found that pornography was a contributor, facilitator or direct causal agent in the acquiring of these sexual illnesses. Patrick Carnes, the leading U.S. researcher in this area, also reports similar findings. In his research on nearly 1000 sex addicts as reported in his "Dan 't Call it Love", he stated: "Among all addicts surveyed 90% of the men and 77% of the women reported pornography as significant to their addiction."

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Due to his studies on the effects of pornography, Cline has been utilized as an expert witness in court cases and by the US Judiciary Committee.For 1977 Florida Trail see : {{cite book|last=Szasz|first=Thomas Stephen|title=Sex by prescription|publisher=Syracuse University Press|year=1990|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sexbyprescriptio00szasrich/page/130 130]–131|url=https://archive.org/details/sexbyprescriptio00szasrich|url-access=registration|isbn=978-0-8156-0250-7}}{{cite book |title=Battle Cry for a Generation: The Fight to Save America's Youth |author-link=Ron Luce |last=Luce |first=Ron |page=[https://archive.org/details/battlecryforgene00luce_0/page/101 101] |year=2005 |publisher=David C. Cook |isbn=978-0-7814-4267-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/battlecryforgene00luce_0 |url-access=registration }}For details on 1996 testimony at US Judiciary Committee see:{{cite book|last=Akdeniz|first=Yaman|title=Internet child pornography and the law: national and international responses|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |year=2008|pages=98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mx30syIntCYC&q=%22Victor+Cline&pg=PA98|isbn=978-0-7546-2297-0}} Cline's opinion was requested by the Commission on Child Online Protection, which is associated with San Jose State University. Cline provided the following testimony:

{{quote|"I find that the use of child pornography in time desensitizes the viewer to its pathology no matter how aberrant or disturbing. It becomes acceptable and preferred. The man always escalates to more deviant material, and the acting out continues and escalates despite very painful consequences such as destruction of the family, loss of spouse, children, job, health, or incarceration after committing criminal acts."}}

According to Cline, online pornography can plunge a person into the pornography cycle of addiction, escalation, desensitization, and acting out sexually. The cost of addiction includes "divorce, loss of family and problems with the law," and it escalates so that the addict requires more deviancy in order to get a "high" or "sexual turn-on."{{cite book|last=Eggleston|first=Terry|title=he Corinthian Syndrome|publisher=Xulon Press|year=2007|pages=31–32|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y60pmHw5SSEC&pg=PA31|isbn=978-1-60266-580-4}}{{cite book|last=Hagelin|first=Rebecca|title=Home invasion: protecting your family in a culture that's gone stark raving mad|publisher=Thomas Nelson Inc|year=2005|pages=40–41|isbn=978-1-59555-007-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6cz-vW93CJsC&pg=PA40}}

Cline was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He worked to help the church.

• {{cite journal|doi=10.1037/h0034945|last=Cline|first=Victor B.|author2=Croft, Roger G. |author3=Courrier, Steven |date=Sep 1973|title=Desensitization of children to television violence|journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|publisher=American Psychological Association|volume=27|issue=3|pages=360–365|url=http://www.psych.utah.edu/2006_spring_3410_00/3905-assignment3articles/4-television_violence_I.pdf|pmid=4741676}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1037/h0041320|last=Cline|first=Victor B.|author2=Richards Jr., James M.|date=Jan 1960|title=Accuracy of interpersonal perception: A general trait?|journal=The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology|publisher=American Psychological Association|volume=60|issue=1|pages=1–7|pmid=13810712}}
• {{cite book|title=Where Do You Draw The Line? - An Exploration Into Media Violence, Pornography, And Censorship|editor=Victor B. Cline|publisher=Brigham Young University Press|location=United States|year=1974|pages=376}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1037/h0047131|last=Cline|first=Victor B.|date=Mar 1955|title=Ability to judge personality assessed with a stress interview and sound-film technique|journal=The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology|publisher=American Psychological Association|volume=50|issue=2|pages=183–187|pmid=14366875}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1037/h0041145|last=Cline|first=Victor B.|author2=Richards Jr., James M. |author3=Needham, Walter E.|date=Jun 1963|title=Creativity tests and achievement in high school science|journal=Journal of Applied Psychology|publisher=American Psychological Association|volume=47|issue=3|pages=184–189}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1037/h0024428|last=Cline|first=Victor B.|author2=Tucker, Michael F. |author3=Schmitt, James R. |date=Apr 1967|title=Prediction Of Creativity And Other Performance Measures From Biographical Information Among Pharmaceutical Scientists|journal=Journal of Applied Psychology|publisher=American Psychological Association|volume=51|issue=2|pages=131–138|pmid=6039336}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1037/h0022083|last1=Cline, Victor B.|first1=Victor B.|author2=Richards Jr., James M.|date=Jun 1965 |title=A factor-analytic study of religious belief and behavior|journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|publisher=American Psychological Association|volume=1|issue=6|pages=569–578|pmid=14300232}}
• Cline, VB (1994). "Pornography effects: Empirical and clinical evidence" In D. Zillmann, J. Bryant, & ACHuston (Eds.), Media, children and the family: Social scientific, psychodynamic and clinical perspectives pp. 229–247
• {{cite journal|last=Cline|first=Victor B.|year=1976|title=The Scientists vs. Pornography: An Untold Story|journal=Intellect|url=http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ149384&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ149384}}
• {{cite journal|last=Cline|first=Victor B.|date=April 1984|title=Obscenity—How It Affects Us, How We Can Deal with It|journal=Ensign|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1984/04/obscenity-how-it-affects-us-how-we-can-deal-with-it?lang=eng}}
• {{cite journal|last=Cline|first=Victor B.|year=1976 |journal=Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy| volume=2 | issue=1 |title=Changing Views and Status of Women: Implications within the Church and the Professions | url=https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php/IssuesInReligionAndPsychotherapy/article/view/17/16}}
• Cline, Victor B. (1980). "How to Make Your Child a Winner"
• Cline, Victor B. (1987). "How to Make a Good Marriage Great: Ten Keys to a Joyous Relationship"

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• [http://obscenitycrimes.org/cline_unabridged.pdf Pornography's Effects on Adults and Children] by Victor Cline.
• [http://www.ldsr.org/info/drcline.phtml Treatment and Healing of Pornographic and Sexual Addictions] by Victor Cline.
• [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Victor%20B.%20Cline%22&sa=N&hl=en&tab=ps Publications on Google Scholar].

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