Articles

How Do I Know if I Am a Sexual Addict?
Unlike healthy sex that is integrated into relationships, sexual addicts use sex as a means to cope, to handle boredom, anxiety and other powerful feelings or as a way to feel important, wanted or powerful. read more »

Understanding Addictive Cybersex
For most cybersex users, the Internet provides a fascinating new venue for experiencing sex. Some users, however, perhaps 8-10 percent, become hooked on cybersex and experience significant life problems as a result. read more »

Couples Recovering from Sexual Addiction
Sex addiction is a family disease. Both partners have been part of the problem and both must be willing to participate in the recovery process, individually and together. read more »

Love Addiction Part I: The Problem
It can be difficult for anyone who is not a love or sex addict to understand how love or sexuality can be exploited or evolve into destructive patterns of addiction and compulsion. read more »

Love Addiction Part II: Recovery from Love and Sex Addiction
As the love and sex addict recovers, they begin to discover themselves in new and unexpected ways. Time formerly put into flirtation and "the hunt", now may go into family involvement and work. read more »

Consequences of Sex Addiction and Compulsivity
Compulsive sexual thoughts and/or behavior leads to increasingly serious consequences, in both the addict's internal and external worlds. For example, 70-75 percent of addicts have thought about suicide. read more »