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12 Med. & L. 439 (1993)
Is There Sex after the Prison Doors Slams Shut

handle is hein.journals/mlv12 and id is 441 raw text is: Med Law (1993) 12:439-443 Medicine and Law CICML 1993 Sexology Is There Sex After the Prison Door Slams Shut?* Lionel P Solursh Assistant Chief of Psychiatry, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia; Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Corrections, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America Diane S Solursh Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior and Director of Employee and Faculty Assistance Program, Medical College of Georgia; Consultant Psychologist, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia and Department of Defense, United States of America Charles A Meyer Jr Attending Psychiatrist, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Chief of Forensic Psychiatry Section, Medical College of Georgia; Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Corrections, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America Abstract Despite the growing frequency of treatment-resistant STDs, North American literature and practice continue to stress repression and to evidence denial of prison sexuality. The authors outline their observations concerning prison sex, including officer-inmate sex. (Since this article was submitted, officer-inmate sex has received widespread public attention in Georgia, USA.) 1 INTRODUCTION AND ISSUES According to data cited in the Atlanta, Georgia daily newspaper in August 1991, the USA leads industrialized nations with its per capita in- carceration rate of 426 per 100 000, easily outdistancing its nearest com- petitors - South Africa (333 per 100 000) and the former USSR (268 per 100 000). Most prisoners in all cultures are male, usually under 30 years of age. Yet little attention is paid to the seemingly reasonable assumption that sexual drive and expression continue to exist and to be important during incarceration, as they were before. As French5 pointed out in 1979, '[pjrison sexuality continues to be shrouded in secrecy'. The North American liter- ature that does exist, largely presumes that sexual drive and expression during imprisonment are obnoxious problems, assumed risk factors for vio- lence and disease which must be eliminated through 'education', restriction 439

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