Digital Devices, Sexual Addiction, and the Workplace

A surprisingly large percentage of sex addicts, porn addicts, and love addicts enter treatment after they are caught misusing work-issued computers, smartphones, and other digital devices. Usually, during work hours or against specific company regulations, they’ve been looking at porn, flirting and planning hookups via “adult friend finder” apps, sexting, having webcam sex, or whatever. Frankly, the list of ways in which company-issued digital devices are misused by sex, porn, and love addicts is endless (and constantly expanding as new “abusable” technologies hit the market almost daily).

Sexual Addiction and the Upper Class: One Woman’s Story

Julianne was a debutante from Alabama. She’d attended Ole Miss where she’d met her husband-to-be, as everyone knew she would. No one in her family really expected her to do anything with her English degree. Imagining Julianne as a teacher or a publisher or, for that matter, a writer, was a joke to them. No, she would do as all the women in her family going back generations had done – she would be beautiful. She might champion literacy and join the country club, certainly she’d join the Junior League. She might occasionally volunteer. Her future husband was to become a lawyer and a well-respected one, and likely a politician; he had his own family legacy to live up to after all. Julianne would play the dutiful wife. She’d make appearances in designer suits and gowns and she’d always time her hair and nail appointments correctly. She’d be masterful at entertaining guests.

Technology and Sexual Addiction

These days, virtually everyone owns a computer, laptop, pad, smartphone, or some other mobile device. Digital interaction is an integral part of our everyday routine. We check emails and texts, update our Facebook page, fire off a tweet or two, and then we think about eating breakfast. Digital interconnectivity provides endless new opportunities that support our very human needs for community and social interaction. We make friends, we share our experiences, we celebrate, and we commiserate – one world, a growing interactive community.

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New Technologies Emerge to Address Porn Addictions

The first step in treating porn addiction is to stop viewing pornographic materials. But for an addict, breaking this habit requires a great deal of effort and constant monitoring. As with most areas of modern life, technology may be able to help combat porn addiction.

Does Sexting Have a Role in the Modern Art of Seduction?

Sexting has been the downfall of many men in power. Most recently, an Indiana pediatrician joined U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner and others in sacrificing his career and reputation for a sexting exchange, in this case with someone he thought was a teenage girl. Like the others who have gone before him, a short time later the pediatrician admitted himself for sexual addiction treatment.

Causes and Signs of Cybersex Addiction

Although it’s a "virtual" sexual encounter, the addictive power and destructive capacities of cybersex are still very real. The growth in Internet technologies has spurred thousands of new sex and pornography websites that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime with anonymity, creating an environment where millions of adults find themselves addicted to cybersex.