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Battling sexual addiction - Millions of Americans suffer from disorder, experts say

View the article here Dr. Patrick Carnes Web Site 02/24/2004 By Keith Morrison Chances are you've known someone, maybe even someone in your own family, who's struggled with an addiction to cigarettes, alcohol or drugs. But what about an addiction to sex? A growing number of medical experts are saying compulsive sexual behavior is a very real disorder that an estimated 16 million Americans, both men and women, are fighting. ?Daily, I sit down with people who look back at the wreckage in their life and say, knowing all along, ?Why would I do this stuff??" says Dr. Patrick Carnes, director of sexual disorders services at Arizona's Meadows Treatment Center, which first coined the term "sexual addiction." Carnes says the same way that people can become addicted to drugs, alcohol or gambling, they can become addicted to sex, anything from Internet sex to obsessive masturbation to affairs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 07, 2009 (boomark / email).