The Devastating Effects Of Sex Addiction

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Sex addiction has been in the media spotlight lately, thanks largely to David Duchovny, the actor who happens to play a sex-obsessed writer on TV's Californication and who went into rehab for the condition in August. In the movie Choke, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Sam Rockwell plays a medical-school dropout who goes to sex-addict recovery groups, looking to hook up. New York author Susan Cheever has just released Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction (Simon & Schuster), a book about her own relentless need for love and sex. And the theme of sexual addiction shows up in Quebec filmmaker Lyne Charlebois's Borderline.

Sex addiction is also the object of plenty of mockery. Even Logan says he used to joke that if you had to have an addiction, sex would be the best. "It's the worst," he says now. "It eats away at your soul. You live with shame. You live a double life. I could not stop it. I knew that one day I would get found out. It's a soul-killing disease."

Hattiesburg, Mississippi--based counsellor-psychologist Patrick Carnes introduced sex addiction to the public when he wrote Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction in 1985. In 1992, he released Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction, a book that features results from a study he conducted of 1,000 addicts and their families.

According to Carnes, three to six percent of the U.S. population is addicted to sex. He's not talking about those who merely have a strong sex drive. "It is a compulsive behavior that completely dominates the addict's life," Carnes explains on his Web site. "Sexual addicts make sex a priority more important than family, friends, and work. Sex becomes the organizing principle of addicts' lives. They are willing to sacrifice what they cherish most in order to preserve and continue their unhealthy behavior."

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Comments

[itsabigworld]

i can only imagine that you people sputtering about the phoniness of sex addiction and how it can be treated with marriage (oh, excuse me, Marriage) are the same ones who believe that smiling can cure depression. how about shifting that mindset towards the golden rule that your guy preached? show a little love and compassion.

[OnTheCusp]

What about the devastating effects of not enough sex? Pray tell, what of that????!!!!

[ArthurTwoShedsJackson]

Simple. You turn into a decrepit, curmudgenly old crank who stops all independent thinking and instead becomes addicted to Fox "News" and right wing hate radio.

[rabiddog6708]

There is a cure for Sex Addition. It's called Marriage.

[Perry Clease]

Scientists believe that there is a substance in wedding cake that cures the addiction to sex.

[planetjeffy]

The cure for marriage is cheating.
The excuse for cheating is called sex addiction.

[Aleka4]

This is stupid.

I just lost my husband to sex addiction, and I am here to tell you that is the worst thing that can happen to a woman, to have her hub choose cyber or fantasy over you. The whole time he was dishonest and lying, its a sick sick sick thing.

Hes still in denial, not getting help.

I wish I had never married him. This is absolutely the worst thing possible, worse than rape. It is nothing to joke about, for the people who get devastated by the effects of this.

[Village]

So men wanting to screw everything in sight and spread the seed is now called an addiction?

Wow, it used to be called evolution.

Why do you think we are the last of our species?

[avraamjack]

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Wanting lots of boink is a disease?.

How much boink are American's allowed to have? Boink is a natural human function !.

Yet another twisted made up disease for American's who seem to want guilt and shame..

On the other hand, lying to people is not right either. You can be horny and honest.
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