Therapy & Treatment for Sex Addiction
Some sexual addiction statistics:
The National Council on Sexual Addiction Compulsivity estimated that 6%-8% of Americans are sex addicts, which is 18 million - 24 million people.
25 million Americans visit cyber-sex sites between 1-10 hours per week. Another 4.7 million in excess of 11 hours per week. (MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, Washington Times, 1/26/2000)
Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction: 10%, 28% of those are women (Internet Filter Review)
Sex is the #1 searched for topic on the Internet (Dr. Robert Weiss, Sexual Recovery Institute, Washington Times, 1/26/2000)
I often talk to my clients that I really believe
there are two activities in our lives that are usually
metaphorical. One is sex and the other is money.
Underneath it all, we often use sex and money as a conduit to act
out deeper needs such as intimacy, connection, worth,
purpose, power and validation. I think this is especially
true when we might reach a point in our lives when we find
we are using sex in an exploratory way that might create
conflicts or problems in other arenas of our lives. Rather
than see the situation as an irreconcilable crisis in our
lives, I like to work with clients and help them see this
as a deeply meaningful mystery process in which the addiction
itself is the guide. To use the patterned behaviors we have
developed for ourselves with sex as clues in helping us uncover
and own more significant parts of our personhood and desires
for what we need in a quality existence that we may have
neglected or disowned. We are built to be sexual beings. It
is so important that we can own a sexual life that we can be
proud of and fulfilled.