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.