Sex addiction is real. Just like being addicted to our phone is real, or being a shop-a-holic is real or being addicted to food is real.
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It can start as a need to just to feel something different than what you're currently feeling, a momentary escape, but instead of picking up a bottle of alcohol or using something else, you turn to sex. You don't think rationally, you make bad decisions and all you can think about is your next hook up, even when you've already had 1 or 2 that day. This addiction can cost you everything.