Review: Very insightful and I learned a lot!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2014
This book is packed full of great information, it took me quite a bit longer to read it than I thought it would.  I bought it because I have a friend that I am trying to understand better.  I thought he might have "sex addiction" but wasn't really sure.  He views pornography on a daily basis and seems to talk about sex WAY more than what I think is necessary.I wanted to make sure I wasn't going overboard so figured I had better get some information before talking with him about it.  Oh yeah, I had brought it up in the past... I didn't add the word "addiction" to our conversation but that was enough for him to become defensive and get a little upset over it.  That is probably a pretty good sign I hit a nerve and was closer to the truth than I originally though.After reading this book I'm absolutely positive that he has some level of sex addiction.  I really don't know to what degree it is manifesting in his life though.  He seems to have become a little more guarded about this topic after our initial "chat".One thing he does is he will date "average" women, which to me seem super nice and have lots of very high quality attributes that just about any man would be super happy to date.  He on the other hand always seems to think he can date a super model caliber woman.  He bases the worth of a woman more on looks than anything else which to me is ridiculous.  Sure you need to be attracted to your partner physically but there is so much more to a relationship that what someone looks like.He is just so hung up on stuff like that...  after reading the book it definitely did help me to understand him better.  I'm not a shrink or anything but I do recognize quite a few "warning signs" discussed in the book in him.So now the question is what to do about it lol...  I'm thinking about just lending the book to him and seeing what he says.  Best case he will read it and we can start a dialog (which at that time I will tell him to talk to a professional lol!!!) and the worst case is it could upset him.Either way I'm glad I now feel like I understand him better.