Sexual Addiction

Are you a sexual addict? Do you:

• Fail over and over at trying to resist sexual impulses?

• Have ongoing, but unsuccessful efforts to stop, reduce, or control your behavior?

• Spend an inordinate amount of time (e.g. staying up all night) obtaining sex, being sexual or recovering from sexual experiences?

• Feel preoccupied with sex or preparing to have sex?

• Spend excessive amounts of time seeking sex when you should be working, in school, with your family or with friends?

• Continue in sexual behaviors after consequences, such as a sexually transmitted disease, losing your job or losing your partner?

• Find that you need more intensity of sexual behavior to get the same result?

(Material taken from research by Patrick Carnes, Ph.D.)

If you answered yes to any of the previous questions, consider consulting with a professional. Contact me via email at marc@marcgilmartin.com or by phone at (425) 453-6344 for a free initial 15-minute consultation.

Sexual Addiction is NOT:

-a frequent desire to have sex
-part of a religious belief system
-an issue of morality
-an indication that your relationship is over
-hating the fact you're a man who has sex with men
-an indication that you are a sociopath
-the same as sexual offending

You are not necessarily an addict if you:

-have a lot of sex
-have a history of multiple romantic and/or sexual partners
-have anonymous sex
-have an affair or a non-monogamous relationship
-have sex while under the influence of drugs
-have fetishes

Typical Sexually Addictive Behaviors include (but are not limited to):

-compulsive masturbation
-anonymous sex that puts you at risk.
-prostitutes, escorts and "sensual massage"
-repeatedly combining sex and drugs
-multiple simultaneous affairs
-repeatedly having cybersex (any form of sexual expression accessed through a computer or the Internet)

Sex Addiction is an unhealthy relationship with a mood altering experience.