Here's a link to a Newsweek article about sex addiction. I'm sure most of us are ok, but there might be a few here that have some problems. I thought it was very interesting. Comments anyone?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...-epidemic.html
anonymous hookups in fast-food-restaurant bathrooms, affairs with married men, and one-night stands too numerous to count. But Valerie couldn’t stop. Not even after one man’s wife aimed a shotgun at her head while catching them in flagrante delicto. Valerie called phone-sex chat lines and pored over online pornography, masturbating so compulsively that it wasn’t uncommon for her to choose her vibrator over going to work. She craved public exhibitionism, too, particularly at strip clubs, and even accepted money in exchange for sex—not out of financial necessity but for the illicit rush such acts gave her.A matter of addiction not enjoyment! The inability to stop, to moderate, or control.
sex was a form of self-medication: to obliterate the anxiety, despair, and crippling fear of emotional intimacy that had haunted her since being abandoned as a child. “In order to soothe the loneliness and the fear of being unwanted, I was looking for love in all the wrong places,” she recalls.The despair, similar to other addictions - booze, and a number of illegal things that have a discussion ban on this site - is prevelant in these actions.
After a decade of carrying on this way, Valerie hit rock bottom.
she grew despondent and attempted to take her life by overdosing on prescription medication. Awakening in the ICU, she at last understood what she had become: a sex addict. “Through sexually acting out, I lost two marriages and a job. I ended up homeless and on food stamps,” says Valerie, who, like most sex addicts interviewed for this story, declined to provide her real name. “I was totally out of control.”Yes many of the ladies and gents here enjoy sex. But there are associated problems that are very serious. The artilce sums in up:
“Sex addiction” remains a controversial designation—often dismissed as a myth or providing talk-show punchlines thanks to high-profile lotharios such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Tiger Woods. But compulsive sexual behavior, also called hypersexual disorder, can systematically destroy a person’s life much as addictions to alcohol or xxxxs can. And it’s affecting an increasing number of Americans, say psychiatrists and addiction experts. “It’s a national epidemic,” says coauthor of Pure Eyes: A Man’s Guide to Sexual Integrity and leader of the X3LA sexual-addiction recovery groups in Hollywood.For those who fall into this depth of dispair, seek help. I am sure there are those here who would help you find that help and others that would dare to take advantage of that sickness. So be careful, but seek help as soon as you can. Now back to the fun stuff.
Sex addiction is bullshit. If anything, it's compulsive behavior that happens to be sexual in nature. Originally Posted by Area ManExactly. As the article I linked to mentioned: "A lot of the research that has been done shows that between 70 and 100 percent of these alleged sex addicts have some other major mental-health problem — there is some other diagnosis, whether it is substance abuse, depression, anxiety or a personality disorder."