Sexual Addiction: Tolerance and Escalation
Tolerance: Tolerance occurs when the body needs increasingly larger or more potent doses to get the same effect from an addictive substance…
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What Sexual Addiction is NOT
At the age of 19, Devin’s parents, when he was home on summer break from college, learned that he was looking at…
Diagnosing Sexual Addiction, Part Two: Questions to Pose
As mentioned in part one of this blog, sexual addiction can be difficult to identify. Because of its highly secretive nature (the…
Diagnosing Sexual Addiction, Part One: Casual vs. At-Risk vs. Addicted
There are three main criteria for the diagnosis of sexual addiction: Preoccupation to the point of obsession with sexual fantasies and behaviors…
Understanding Men Who Cheat, Part One (Justification and Denial)
In my previous posting to this site, I wrote about the reasons that women sometimes engage in sexual infidelity, promising that I’d…