Myths About Sex Addiction pt. II

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Myth: Sex addicts are the same as sex offenders.

Sexual offending is a legal term to describe the actions of someone who sexually forces himself on another person without the other person’s knowledge or consent. Rape, child molestation, and sexual battery are forms of violent sexual offending and are treated as felonies. Exhibitionism, voyeurism, and frotteurism (touching others personal body parts without permission) are also considered offenses, though carrying a lesser misdemeanor type of legal charge. While some may cross the line into offending behaviors as a part of the escalation of their addictive problem, the majority of sex addicts do not become sexual offenders.

The Addict’s Bumpy Road to Healing

Most sexually addicted clients enter treatment, whether outpatient, intensive program or residential care, not out of any great desire to be better people, but when facing major life consequences and losses related to their problem sexual behavior. Issues like “my wife found out about my going to sensual massages and made me get help to save our marriage” or “my boss told me if I didn’t get treatment after I got caught viewing porn at work I would be fired” are common reasons that push sex addicts into attending treatment.

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Most sexually addicted clients enter treatment, whether outpatient, intensive program or residential care, not out of any great desire to be better people, but when facing major life consequences and losses related to their problem sexual behavior. Issues like “my wife found out about my going to sensual massages and made me get help to save our marriage” or “my boss told me if I didn’t get treatment after I got caught viewing porn at work I would be fired” are common reasons that push sex addicts into attending treatment.

Sexual Recovery Institute Founding Director Will Educate Professionals about Sex and Porn Addiction

Los Angeles, CA (Businesss Wire) May 20, 2010 – The Sexual Recovery Institute, the leading outpatient recovery center for sexual addiction and intimacy disorders in the United States, has announced that founding director Robert Weiss has been chosen as a faculty member for the first annual West Coast Symposium on Addictive Disorders (WCSAD). The symposium, hosted by C4 Recovery Solutions in partnership with RecoveryView.com, will be held at the La Quinta Resort & Club in La Quinta, CA from June 3-5, 2010.

Myths About Sex Addiction Part I

Myth: Someone with good morals wouldn’t have this problem.

You are not a sex addict because your morals or ethics differ from the moral beliefs of others. However, you may be a sex addict if your sexual behavior often takes you outside of your own system of values and beliefs, leaving you feeling badly about yourself and your relationships. Consistently going outside of your own moral comfort zone in pursuit of a sexual high is one of the warning signs of sexual addiction.  Sex addicts don’t betray partners and loved ones or violate their own personal belief systems because they are immoral people. Anyone in the compulsive throes of an addiction, whether it is a substance or behavior based problem, can act in ways contrary to their usual character and beliefs.

A look inside sex rehab

Before taking a look at what goes on behind closed doors in sex rehab, it is important to understand what defines a sex addict. Sex addicts are like drug addicts, they have trouble controlling their urges and derive a certain “high” or form of pleasure from acting out on their impulses to have sex, masturbate to porn, etc. Usually these urges take control of their lives and ultimate ruin them and their marriages or relationships.

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