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In 1992, he released Don’t Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction, a book that features results from a study he conducted of 1,000 addicts and their families.Īccording to Carnes, three to six percent of the U.S. Hattiesburg, Mississippi–based counsellor-psychologist Patrick Carnes introduced sex addiction to the public when he wrote Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction in 1985. I knew that one day I would get found out. Even Logan says he used to joke that if you had to have an addiction, sex would be the best. Sex addiction is also the object of plenty of mockery.

And the theme of sexual addiction shows up in Quebec filmmaker Lyne Charlebois’s Borderline. New York author Susan Cheever has just released Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction (Simon & Schuster), a book about her own relentless need for love and sex.

SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS SAN ANTONIO MOVIE

In the movie Choke, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Sam Rockwell plays a medical-school dropout who goes to sex-addict recovery groups, looking to hook up. Sex addiction has been in the media spotlight lately, thanks largely to David Duchovny, the actor who happens to play a sex-obsessed writer on TV’s Californication and who went into rehab for the condition in August. He stresses that he’s not speaking on behalf of Sex Addicts Anonymous but, rather, wants to tell his story so that people in similar situations know that they can get help. Logan now describes himself as in his third year of recovery from sex addiction. “Unconditional love and support is what you get in those rooms.” “Out of that despair I walked into that room and found hope,” he says of the 12-step program. Two days later, Logan went to his first Greater Vancouver Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting. I hurt my parents I hurt my siblings”¦I felt as if I’d lost everything.” I had hurt my family so much, and I didn’t understand why. “I was standing on top of a cliff, wondering if I should jump,” Logan says.

His relationships with many friends and family members ceased or suffered. Although he and his second wife tried counselling, their marriage ended earlier this year. “The moment she said that, the light went off in my head,” Logan says. His second wife said to him: “It sounds like you have an addiction.” With those words, everything clicked. Not only had he cheated on her, but he was also unfaithful in his first marriage. She left only when they were talking on the phone a few days later did he confess everything. “I’d drop them and vow never to do it again and would go back to my wife and try to be a better husband.”īut the cycle continued: over and over, he’d scour the classifieds in the Georgia Straight or pay for telepersonals to find a new, willing lover.įinally, after his wife found a link on his computer to a site aimed at married men wanting affairs, Logan’s double life started crumbling. “I’d usually sleep with a person once, then would be so disgusted with myself that I would immediately cease all contact,” Logan, who doesn’t want his real name used, for obvious reasons, says on his cellphone. Georgia Straight editor Charlie Smith discusses why the Straight ran a cover story on sex addiction.