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Counting citations in journals devoted to human sexology can provide increased awareness of important clinical and research contributions. The exercise also reveals trends in the field and serves as a guide to an ever increasing literature. This article provides lists of authors, books, and articles frequently cited in three authoritative sexuality journals. Frequency counts were based on 5,742 references over a two-year period. Results are discussed and compared with the findings from the same analysis a decade ago.

Counting professional citations in the field of human sexology can yield an increased understanding of important clinical/research contributions, their authors and institutions, and central topics within an ever-increasing body of sexological information. This article provides lists of both authors and specific articles and books that are frequently cited in recent sex research. Frequency analyses were based on 4440 references in three major sex research journals for two complete years. Results are discussed in terms of citation patterns and their implications.

The extramarital crisis situation is defined and six common themes presented. These distinguishing features: cognitive and emotional turmoil, unresolved relationship issues, defensiveness, pressures related to the extramarital partner(s), search for an interpretive framework, and decisions about the future, are elaborated in terms of existing literature in the field of extramarital sex. The six themes constitute a general profile from which therapists can formulate specific client assessments. Therapy implications are dealt with for each theme and collectively represent an approach to extramarital crises and a summarization of existing clinical strategies. Some research data is presented as further verification of the six-theme framework.