“Sexual Addiction is a Feminist Victory”
While men often joke that they wouldn’t mind being “sex addicts,” women tend to think sexual addiction is just an excuse for bad behavior. Clinicians and those who’ve been working in the field for some time now know that it is in fact very serious and not a cop out or something anyone would actually want.
Slate.com recently ran an article claiming “sex addiction is a feminist victory.” Naturally, women are going to find it difficult to sympathize with their spouses once they catch them cheating–addict or not. When Patrick Carnes popularized the term “sex addict” in the 70s:
“…feminists rejected Carnes’ diagnosis not because they considered “addict” a cop-out for cads, but because they considered the book ’sex-negative,’ recalls Robert Weiss, founding director of the Sexual Recovery Institute in California. “That was an era of sexual permissiveness, when sex therapists were encouraging people to come out and accept all kinds of sexuality.” If men behaved the way Woods or the fictional Del did, ‘there wasn’t a lot of perspective’ in society about it being a problem or an illness, says Weiss. “It was just what guys were being encouraged to do.””
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