While numerous media stories circulate regarding celebrities and sexual addiction, few address sexual addiction as an illness with symptoms and destructive consequences, making it difficult to pinpoint the characteristics of this complex condition.
Who sends more sexual images of themselves or sexual conversations via their cell phones – men or women? It’s women, according to a recent study from University of Nebraska researchers, in conjunction with researchers from Washburn University. Study authors believe the numbers may demonstrate a growing trend of more people participating in an online affair …
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To be at risk for sex addiction, two psychological preconditions seem to exist during childhood:
Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S, Founding Director of The Sexual Recovery Institute, Los Angeles, and Director of The Center for Sexual Recovery at The Ranch, is a leading expert in the field of sexual disorders and addiction. Weiss has also developed sexual disorders programming at Promises Treatment Centers, and will develop future programs for Promises Behavioral …
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Chatting on social networks like Facebook takes a serious turn when partners and spouses engage in cybersex or sexual conversations with so-called “friends” online. As social media usage hits all-time highs, many marriages are hitting all-time lows, or pursuing divorce, due to inappropriate and emotionally-charged activity on social media networks.
A relatively new phrase on the sex crime scene is sextortion, and more and more teens are on the victim list, say authorities. Sextortion starts when someone – typically a teen – sends out pictures from a cell phone or over the Internet of themselves partially clothed, called “sexting.” When blackmailers or pornographers find the …
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There is much to be said about the life of a teenager. These individuals are still growing, changing and noticing that the world around them seems very different than it did when they were younger.
In the complex study of sexual addiction and sexually compulsive behaviors, experts now believe people who suffer from these conditions may have as an underlying cause a fear of intimate relationships and a deep insecurity, compared to others without this disorder.
Sexual addiction never exists in a vacuum. The individual that’s closest to the sex addict, whether that person is a marriage partner, significant other, or child, also suffers. When one person in a relationship is a sexual addict, the other partner and/or parents are negatively affected by the addiction. While children impacted by a parent …