If you’ve been reading this blog then you know we’ve been covering the Tiger Woods story quite a bit now. I’ve been personally asked to provide my own thoughts and “expert opinions” on several occasions now that the focus has shifted to sexual addiction and sex rehab.
Sex addiction sounds like the kind of problem most guys would like to have. Isn’t claiming you are a sex addict just an excuse for bad behavior?
Sex addiction for the sex addict is about as much fun as alcoholism is for the alcoholic. Think about that. Many adults enjoy drinking now and then. Some people drink socially, others drink a bit at the end of the day to relax and some even get drunk once in a while (New Years, etc).
With rumors flying regarding Tiger Wood’s supposed trip to ’sex rehab,’ I am receiving an increasing number of media calls asking to explain exactly how sex addiction treatment works. Here is a brief overview of the five stages of sex rehab:
Mackenzi Phillips, daughter of The Mamas & the Papas’ John Phillips, recently published her own personal story of sex, drugs and rock & roll. Like many, it’s a sad one, filled with addiction and even a sexual relationship with her own father.
It’s no secret that the media loves to focus on rehab in general when it comes to celebrities, but thanks to Tiger Woods, sex rehab is in the limelight. It’s everywhere: television shows (i.e. “Californication,” “Sex Rehab”), news and movies. And as coverage increases so does the number of people seeking treatment–or sex rehab.
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The media is buzzing with the latest news on Tiger Woods allegedly checking himself into “sex rehab.” People Magazine called our Clinical Director, Sharon O’Hara, to ask for her expert opinion on whether or not therapy is right for Woods and if he’s even a sex addict at all:
I have spent the past 15 years of my professional life treating sexual addiction. Back when I started this work, those of us working with sex addicts were more often challenged in the media and in professional communities to “prove” that the diagnosis of sexual addiction actually existed, rather than encouraged to discuss how the problem is diagnosed or solved. The Internet has changed all of that. There are now so many men and women simply checked out day after day from their work, families and social lives from hours spent online – viewing porn, researching and hooking up with prostitutes or finding anonymous sex partners, so many lives are now affected, that question has moved from “is there really such a thing as sex addiction?” to “ok there is a problem, what can we do about it?”
At SRI, 2010 is in full swing with our Two-Week Intensive Programs for Sex and Porn Addicts. January has already sold out, February is one space away, and we are already filling dates in March and April. The low cost, highly effective, 10-day intensive provides a personalized program of daily individual therapy, group education and structured support.
