Modify sexually addictive behavior interfering with life satisfaction in treatMent with dr. silbert!
Sex addiction has attracted star celebrity status literally and figuratively in today’s modern era. Everyone has an opinion from the guy on the street to the medical professional, all propagated and pulsated by the mass media. Call it Sex Addiction San Diego, sexual compulsion or get down and dirty bad behavior, our politicians, sports stars, and Hollywood celebrities are the popular representatives of such blatant public arousing interest. In American society where sex, like alcohol, is socially acceptable and encouraged, and sexual images proliferate, it becomes more challenging to distinguish between normal sexuality and excessive, or abnormal sexual behavior. The proof becomes obvious as the individual life spirals out of control physically, mentally and/or with regard to social or occupational functioning.
Whether spending hours on the computer finding increasingly better and varied pornography or searching the bars at night for the hot fling, or hitting up varied massage parlors for 'happy endings' over time the outcome is an individual who feels lousy about himself or herself. To escape from the negative feelings and thoughts, the obsessivecompulsive chase continues, hence the ability to momentarily displace the original undesirable emotion. The sexual experience is not about intimacy, but rather to seek pleasure. As the sexual compulsion continues, generally it takes more time to find increasingly varied scenarios of sexual behavior to maintain the intensity of the “sexual high.� Once the conquest has been achieved and the brains chemical rush of transitory euphoria dissipated, the original negative emotion returns coupled with greater undesirable