Women who view pornography, have a higher-than-average number of sexual partners and masturbate with unusual frequency are likely affected by sex addiction, a new study finds.
Sexual addiction is a serious problem that afflicts many people. Although not all experts in the mental health profession consider it a true addiction like alcoholism, sex addiction is very real. Whether you call it sex addiction, sexual compulsion, or a sexual behavior disorder, it describes someone who obsesses over acts, behaviors, and other things sexual.
Carolee and Sayda met in an online community called Experience Project. Carolee had been searching for stories related to female sexual addiction (she suspected she might be experiencing the problem herself), and after reading several such stories on the website, she gathered the courage to post her own. When Sayda read Carolee’s story, she related so completely that she realized she might be suffering from sex addiction, too. She was stunned. The two young women began to communicate via the site’s messaging service and eventually began to email and talk by phone. They poured out their stories and their hearts to one another.
October, a Thursday, 4:30 p.m.
I receive a message on my Linked-In professional profile from a high school classmate I hadn’t seen in 18 years, exactly the same number of years I had lived when I last saw or spoke to him. He sees that I live in Atlanta and is coming to town on a business trip. He wants to meet. Tonight.
More and more of late, stories about female sexual addiction-and books by women writing their stories of sexual addiction-are circulating in mass media. You may have encountered such a story on your favorite online news aggregate or heard about a female sex addict from a friend. You may be one of these women yourself.
Addiction is a disease that does not discriminate based on race, gender, social status, religion, or lack thereof.
