Comments on: The myth of sex addiction

By: Vichy

Vichy — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:49:09 +0000

Really, this is what all ‘addictions’ and ‘mental illnesses’ are. They’re all mythical nonsense. Some people have personalities and lifestyles that make others uncomfortable, so they call it a ‘disaease’. They used to call it ‘demons’. The reality is: it’s called being a human with a mind.

By: qsdqs

qsdqs — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:57:17 +0000

Seriously ……….. I can’t take so much bullshit at once…. I have been suffering of sexual addictions for years. Sexual addiction has nothing to do with simply “liking sex”. It is an addiction, a real addiction. Just like compulsive eating, alcoholism, compulsive gambling and many others. I am addicted because I have an addictive personality because of traumatisms in my childhood. Traumatisms that I have already identified. If it was not an addiction, how come so many people suffer of different addictions, recognized as addictions, like alcoholism or compulsive eating, together with sexual addiction ?? Sexual addiction is not about bad judgement. I have my behavior when I am addicted, I deeply hate it. This book is not exactly what we needed, when millions of people are struggling with this addiction, that completely destroys their lives. I just hope that the author does not believe in what he wrote, and just wrote it to make money on ignorants. this guy tells exactly what people who don’t know sexual addiction like to believe. The exact same thing that makes addicts look like immoral persons, the exact same thing that makes them be misunderstood by society and put them a little deeper in the shit when what they need is understanding, or at least good information to get rid of all that crap that addiction is.

By: Lewis Hales, M.A.,M.

Lewis Hales, M.A.,M. — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:54:51 +0000

Folks, I wrote an article called The Myth of Sexual Addiction published in Professional Counselor, June 1995, Volume 10,# 3. It appears that some of you did not do a comprehensive research to find it. At the time, I was the only therapist that dared to express my experiences and differences of opinion about this issue. I almost got fired from my counseling position after the submission was published.

Lewis Hales,M.A.,M.A.

By: Dr Sarah Ullman

Dr Sarah Ullman — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:30:08 +0000

As a clinical psychologist and social neuroscientist specializing in the research, diagnosis and treatment of sexual addiction for the past 3 decades,it saddens me to see that both Dr’s Hopley and Hodson,not unlike many health care professionals unfamiliar with the scientific research, are making a completely inaccurate professional claim to something that science tells us otherwise. A sexual addiction is not about “sex” and should not be confused with someone who has lots of sex. Sex addiction is a neurobiological and neuropsychological disease process that is borne out of early childhood sexual trauma. A Sexually addicted adult is not someone who has too much sex, or too may affairs. It is someone who uses sex to medicate their very troubled and traumatic past. People who have too much sex are simply sexually compulsive – neither a disease nor a disorder. Sexual addicts on the other hand, have serious brain impairment in a part of their brain (called the prefrontal cortex) which is responsible for what we refer to as Executive Function. Executive Function controls aspects of personality such as impulse control, sexual activity, judgment, rationality, decision-making,attention, and much more. Many sex addicts also have co-occuring psychiatric disorders such as ADD/ADHD, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, as the disorders originate from the very same part of the brain. It is my hope that we can begin to educate the public to the true nature of this neurological traumatogenic disease that is a byproduct of childhood sexual abuse. Sex addicts suffer horrible out-of-control lives borne out of horrible abusive pasts through no fault of their own. You may be interested in visiting my blog http://thesexaddictedbrain.com to learn the truth about this very real neurological condition.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:57:25 +0000

I certainly agree that there’s too much medicalization of bad behavior. And if there’s not much evidence of or research on sex addiction then its certainly being overused in the media. But isn’t it plausible that sex addictions and even food addictions could exist?
With food especially, I know there are people who eat for emotional reasons rather than physical reasons. Even though its a natural urge couldn’t people be addicted to the emotional comfort they feel when performing certain eating patterns? In fact its hard for me to believe that this doesn’t exist because I feel like I’ve known several people who had just such an addiction. This wouldn’t, of course, be a physical addiction like say nicotine but it could certainly be a psychological condition that could require therapy.

By: Lilian Nattel

Lilian Nattel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:42:35 +0000

Interesting article. I especially liked the observation: “Then its convenient for a bad choice to be repackaged as a disease.”