sexual recovery
Does Fetish Behavior = Sex Addiction?
A fetish is an object, behavior, or body part whose real or fantasized presence is part of a person’s sexual gratification. In other words, fetishes are recurrent and intensely arousing sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviors that incorporate specific roles and/or physical objects. These objects and roles are incorporated into a person’s sexual life because they are a compelling and sometimes even primary source of arousal. Most fetishes are playful and harmless, though some are pathological, dangerous, and even illegal.
Helpful Hints about Using Your Sexual Boundary Plan
Unlike recovery from substance abuse, sexual sobriety does not entail ongoing abstinence. Instead, recovering sex addicts – working in conjunction with a knowledgeable sex addiction therapist or a 12-step sexual recovery sponsor – define their individual goals for recovery and a healthy life. Then, based on those goals, they craft a three-part boundary plan that defines what sexual sobriety means to them. This written commitment is broken down into inner, middle, and outer boundaries, each of which is specific to the individual in question. The inner boundary is the addict’s bottom-line definition of sexual sobriety, specifically listing the sexual behaviors he or she wishes to stop. The middle boundary lists warning signs and slippery situations that could lead the addict back to his or her inner boundary behaviors. The outer boundary lists healthy activities the addict can engage in as enjoyable and fulfilling alternatives to acting out.
Beginning a celibacy period
A celibacy period is necessary for a sex addict’s path to recovery. Below is advice to help keep you on track.
1. View it as a time-out, not an end. A celibacy period will provide you space to refocus on other needs. It is not a sentence, not the end of your sexuality. On the contrary, celibacy will make you fully aware of your sexual self.
Using Skype as a tool for recovering sex addicts
By: Terry Gatewood, ASW, MSW
It is difficult for many people to fit therapy into their daily lives. Things come up and a patient simply will not be able to commit to a therapy session. When this happens we turn to Skype.
SRI’s launching its new “Lunch Hour” support group
Los Angeles, CA (Businesss Wire) August 10, 2010 – Starting Thursday, August 19, 2010 SRI will begin offering a “lunch hour” support group for spouses and partners of sex addicts from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
The sessions will take place on Thursdays from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Sexual Recovery Institute (SRI), facilitated by treatment specialist, Korina Jochim, M.A., one of the primary SRI staff. They will focus on building social support, understanding triggers, and creating healthy boundaries for partners of addicts. Korina will also integrate grounding and meditation techniques as a management tool for those suffering from trauma.
Sex Addiction Can Affect Just About Anyone
The increased attention sex addiction has been getting in the media has a positive and negative affect on the field of sexual recovery. On the one hand, more and more people are seeking recovery but on the other hand, the media’s tendency to focus mainly on celebrities has made the general public question the validity of an addiction to sex. The truth is: it’s as serious as any other addiction. According to SASH, it is estimated that 3-5 percent of the American population can be labeled as sex addicts. This is likely a conservative estimate since it is based on the number of people who actually check themselves in for treatment.
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.
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.
