Can you be addicted to sex, just as you can to drugs or alcohol?

The answer is yes. Although it's often portrayed as a "victimless" individual choice, sexual addiction and compulsive behavior can have very negative and long-lasting effects on addicts, on those in relationships with them and on society.

Sexual addicts engage in obsessive/compulsive sexual behavior that causes severe stress to themselves and their families. They make sex the center of their lives, become willing to sacrifice what they value most and exhibit behaviors such as:

• compulsive heterosexual and homosexual relationships
• exhibitionism
• voyeurism
• incest
• rape and violence
• compulsive masturbation
• obsession with pornography
• prostitution
• indecent phone calls
• child molestatiion

To read more about sexual addiction and compulsive behavior, please download our educational brochure,"Compulsive Sexual Behavior and Sexual Addiction: Too Much of a Good Thing?"

There is hope-and effective treatment.

Call us today for a referral to counselors, groups, tapes or other resources that can make a real difference to you or a loved one.

 

National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families
Confidential Helpline 1-800-583-2964