I’ve almost finished watching the first season of Californication – great show by the way – and started thinking if David Duchovny’s recent tribulations could somehow be related to Hank Moody, the sex-obsessed character he plays on the show.
How real is sex addiction? Well, the WSJ has a column (via the WSJ Health Blog) on the topic today, and apparently, it’s quite controversial within the psychology community:
One camp thinks the very notion of “sex addiction” implies a narrow, moralistic view of what’s acceptable. “There are millions of people stuck in unhappy relationships who go to massage parlors or the Internet and to demonize their sexuality is terribly unfair,” says Marty Klein, a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist in Palo Alto, Calif. He says people who are unhappy with their sexual choices may be depressed or bipolar or need to face the fact that their relationships have failed, but the problem isn’t necessarily sex.
I wonder how effective the treatments are. Unlike alcohol, drugs , gambling and other addictions, is sex really something you can abstain from?
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Maybe it’s more like an eating disorder.
Perhaps a chastity belt could work.
Sounds like a good medical excuse for being irresponsible (and sleazy?) I wonder if this terrible malady could qualify one for disability? :0
The accurate answer is that some gay men in the 80s did abstain for 5-10 years because they judged safer sex to be too disaster-prone (or difficult for them as individuals to maintain flawlessly and consistently) and this saved their lives, but with other personality consequences which were not good.
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