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What is Sexual Addiction?

 

 

 

God created us in his image and as sexual beings and declared “it was very good” (Genesis 1:31a).  But, as in other areas of our lives, what is good can be abused.

Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. defines sexual addiction as, “A pathological (habitual, maladaptive, and compulsive) relationship with a mood altering experience”.  Regardless of the form of sexual acting out (internet, pornographic material, fantasy, masturbation, prostitution, exhibitionism, multiple relationships, etc.) a person is addicted when they no longer have the ability to stop on their own.

When most addicts act out sexually they make promises to themselves that they will never do it again.  Yet somehow they continue to act out again and again and again.

 

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