In early May 2022, Ross Bartels chaired a symposium entitled “Widening the Scope of Paraphilic Research: Examining Exhibitionistic, Dacryphilic, and Somnophilic Interests” at the 2022 NOTA conference in Leeds.
- The symposium was comprised of three talks. The first was on ‘dacryphilia’ delivered by UoL MSc student Isobel Corfield; the second was on exhibitionism by MSc student Courteney Ferguson; and the third was on somnophilia by PhD student Liz Deehan. The session was well-attended and generated great interest and discussion.
- MSc student – Karolina Wojcik – also presented a research poster on a new ‘Functions of Sexual Fantasy Scale’. NOTA have since invited Karolina to write a NOTA blog post about this piece of work.
- Also, Hannah Merdian’s research, as part of a collaboration with the intervention provider Stop it Now! Scotland, was presented at the conference. The talk was entitled: “Stop it Now! Scotland and online PROTECT: key trends and patterns in a dataset gathered from 800 clients over the past decade”.