I find the emphasis on addiction not as useful for positive behavioral change. Many people who would be Dx with sexual addiction never learned or were modeled good relationship skills including emotional and erotic intelligence.
As long as it is an addiction then it could be accepted as noy being under ones’ control and billed to insurance as a Pathology.
Addictions are big business but truth be told 12 steps are not very effective.
Poor Tiger. When we finally emerge from the Victorian mores of our ancestors and realize that our sexual suffering is the result of ignorance, things may begin to change. Much of sex addiction is due to the inability to achieve a complete and satisfying orgasm. This invariably leaves a person wanting more, thus creating the “addiction.” The flip-side would be the prehensile insanity in which power and/or money attracts sexual interest like moths to a flame… How is an “addict” to rise above this? How does one begin to achieve satisfying orgasms? Over seventy years ago, therapists such as Wilhelm Reich illuminated the path, should anyone wish to explore. No idea whether Pine Grove/Gentle Path does, but total abstinence suggests not. Will power is not the way to a satisfying orgasm.
I find the emphasis on addiction not as useful for positive behavioral change. Many people who would be Dx with sexual addiction never learned or were modeled good relationship skills including emotional and erotic intelligence.
As long as it is an addiction then it could be accepted as noy being under ones’ control and billed to insurance as a Pathology.
Addictions are big business but truth be told 12 steps are not very effective.
Poor Tiger. When we finally emerge from the Victorian mores of our ancestors and realize that our sexual suffering is the result of ignorance, things may begin to change. Much of sex addiction is due to the inability to achieve a complete and satisfying orgasm. This invariably leaves a person wanting more, thus creating the “addiction.” The flip-side would be the prehensile insanity in which power and/or money attracts sexual interest like moths to a flame… How is an “addict” to rise above this? How does one begin to achieve satisfying orgasms? Over seventy years ago, therapists such as Wilhelm Reich illuminated the path, should anyone wish to explore. No idea whether Pine Grove/Gentle Path does, but total abstinence suggests not. Will power is not the way to a satisfying orgasm.