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Re: Is it really a sex addiction or just a lack of respect for myself? - October 2nd 2011, 06:54 PM

Alex, some don't like when I say this, but you cannot technically be addicted to sex. It can become a problem, but that problem isn't the result of an addiction.

There are a lot of reasons people have difficulty with self control, we'd really need to understand a whole lot about you to determine the actual causes, which would obviously be beyond the scope of this post and this site. However, if you look at this not so much as an 'Addiction' (which implies beyond your conscious control), but rather as a judgment and impulse/self control/self regulation issue, there's a better chance you can master this.

So, the thing that might be most helpful here is for you to not see this as a sexual thing, but a basic self regulation issue. By taking the emotion out of it and looking at it as 'cognitive' issue, you can recall how it is you control and self regulate other urges or desires, how you use your judgment to 'Do the right things', and then apply them in context of guys and sex.


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