Also, we want to invite you to share what you have learned. We will post your insights if respectfully stated and you are not repeating what has already been said. We will post insights that we may not be in agreement with. Leave your e-mail address with Dan Morris if you want others to contact you. Sex addiction resembles other addictions.
Sex addicts use sex to self-medicate, to numb distressful emotions.
Repeated numbing of distressful emotions can result in depression. Sex addicts, therefore, use sex as an antidepressant. Sex addicts, because they use sex to avoid feeling distressful emotions, also avoid emotional intimacies in relationships. Sex addicts can feel very lonely and isolated. Sexual addiction can be fueled by sexual fantasies that are a replacement for real life interaction.