“I know guys who will drive around the city block for three hours looking for prostitutes. They aren’t genitally aroused, but are emotionally aroused looking for sex. They aren’t actually addicted to sex, but the pursuit.”
Is sex really an addiction?
Read the whole article in the Chicago Free Press.
Some signs you may have a sexual addiction:
- You are experiencing a loss of control. For example, you don’t want to spend six hours a night on Manhunt, but you can’t stop yourself.
- You are keeping your sexual life a secret.
- Your sexual behavior is causing you physical harm. For example, you masturbate so frequently there is tissue damage.
- You spend so much time finding people to hook up with, surfing porn or masturbating that it’s interfering with work or other life goals.
- Your sexual behavior is getting in the way of your primary relationships, such as your partner, family or friends.
- Despite any severe consequences you experience—becoming infected with a sexually transmitted disease, getting in trouble with the law for having sex in a public place or getting fired from work for surfing for porn—you still can’t stop.
- Your behavior has escalated. You used to go out searching for sex two nights a week, and now it is every night.
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