Patrick Carnes comments on sex addiction on CBS
See last weeks early show on CBS on Sex Addiction.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/24/sunday/main6136039.shtml
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Center For Healthy Sex Presents: Sex Addiction Los Angeles
Straight talk, up-to-date information and resources for individuals and couples about sexual addiction, cybersex addiction, sexual anorexia, sexual desire and sexual dysfunction.
Watch this video!
Is sex addiction a real problem? If you’re still skeptical take a look at this well-done TV report.
If you or a loved one are struggling with issues of sexual addiction, go to SAA-recovery.org for help!
http://www.wpix.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=3253482d-dc85-4e94-b93c-8d88339614e7&src=front
New Sex Addiction Recovery Book: Hope & Freedom for Sexual Addicts and Their Partners
This exciting new book comes from Milton Magness, Ph.D. If you are new to sexual addiction recovery take a moment to go to the website below and check it out!
Hope & Freedom for Sexual Addicts and Their Partners
Includes information about:
- Recovery Components
- Disclosure
- Polygraph Exams as an Aid to Recovery
- Celibacy Contracts
- The Partner’s Recovery Journey
- Slip and Relapse Recovery
- A Blueprint for Rebuilding Broken Trust
- When Is It Time to Move On?
Link to purchase the book is: http://www.hopeandfreedom.com/magnessbook/magnessbook/hope-%26-freedom-for-sexual-addicts-and-their-partners.html
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New Recovery Book: Hope & Freedom for Sexual Addicts and Their Partners
Dr. Milton Magness has a new recovery book out entitled:
Hope & Freedom for Sexual Addicts and Their Partners
This exciting new book Includes information about:
- Recovery Components
- Disclosure
- Polygraph Exams as an Aid to Recovery
- Celibacy Contracts
- The Partner’s Recovery Journey
- Slip and Relapse Recovery
- A Blueprint for Rebuilding Broken Trust
- When Is It Time to Move On?
If you’re currently a sex addict, involved with a sex addict, or already in recovery, I highly recommend that you pick up this book! To purchase the book, go to:
http://www.hopeandfreedom.com/magnessbook/magnessbook/hope-%26-freedom-for-sexual-addicts-and-their-partners.html
CA State Assemblyman Resigns
The Los Angeles Times reports that State Assemblyman Mike Duvall resigned on Wednesday, Sepbember 9 after his lewd comments about women he had been sexually involved with were inadvertently broadcast over an open microphone during a lull in a Sacramento hearing in July.
This is another example of the split we see in sex addicts all the time. Mr. Duvall is a Republican, pro-family advocate who has clearly lead a double life. I’m not saying that he’s definately a sex addict but his behaviors certainly make him suspect.
To read the article go to :
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-duvall10-2009sep10,0,2300584.story?track=rss
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“Is It Love Or Is It Addiction?” by Brenda Schaeffer, Ph.D.
The updated and new edition of the book that changed the way we think about romance, love and intimacy is now available!
In the expanded 3rd edition of her best selling classic Is It Love or Is It Addiction?, psychologist Dr. Brenda Schaeffer offers readers an expert prognosis of love addiction, what it is, what it is not, how to identify it, and most important, how to get you out of it and into healthy love. It includes:
- two new chapters - Romance Addiction and Sexual Addiction;
- up to date information on the biological and psychological basis of addictive behaviors;
- the role technology plays;
- the role of trauma;
- new stories; and
- an updated self help section.
If you are ready to move towards a healthier love life and join the thousands whose lives have already been changed by this book, click here: www.itsallaboutlove.com
The book is also available through hazelden.org, amazon.com and at bookstores.
Mavis Humes Baird Talks Sex Addiction on CBS News
Experts continue to struggle with how to define the problem of compulsive sexual behaviors because of the lack of scientific data to support that the need for sex can feel like an addiction. Thousands of men and women describe their need for sex and inability to control their behaviors as feeling like an addiction.
Psychotherapist Mavis Humes Baird talks about sex addiction as a bona fide disorder in this interview in the Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jon-lapook/sex-addiction-is-it-reall_b_211473.html
In this CBS News interview, Ms. Humes Baird gives clear answers to this problem
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5060423n
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The Porn Industry Kills…
Whether or not pornography is good for a culture or not is a complicated topic. On the one hand the right to print and view porn is a free speech issue, and on the other hand it can be a human rights issue. Many young men and women die every year due to overdose, suicide, homicide, and accidents due to the torment they are going through working in porn films.
Although I don’t have an answer about what is “right” and what is “wrong” where the availability of porn is concerned, former porn actress, Shelley Luben does. She has created a crusade to help people get out of the porn industry. Her site does anything but glamorize an industry that chews people up and spits them out.
Watching porn is not a victimless crime.
Eleven porn porn stars died from HIV, suicide, homicide and drugs in 2007.
Between 2003 and 2005, 976 performers were reported with 1,153 positive STD results.
66% of porn performers have Herpes, a non-curable disease.
To read more about porn industry stats and current legislation in the state of California, go to http://www.shelleylubben.com/index.php?truth=home
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Women Struggle with Sex Addiction Too
If you are female and are worried about your sexual behaviors, take a look at this video produced by faithave.com. Marnie Feree, a long-time expert on female sex addiction, talks about the facts of female sex addiction.
This is a faith-based message which I neither endorse or condem. As they say in the 12-step tradition, “take what you like and leave the rest.” To view the video go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTJkfUibkIY&feature=PlayList&p=5D83675D836231D3&index=0
Behavioral Health & Addictive Disorders Conference
Join me from May 27 - May 29 in Seattle, Washington for the U.S. Journal’s 22nd Annual Northwest Conference on Behavioral Health and Addictive Disorders.
I will be a keynote speaker at 9:00 am on Friday, May 29 talking about my new book, “Erotic Intelligence.”
In two follow-up sessions, I will be presenting a course entitled “Sex Addiction 101: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Sexual Addiction” and “It’s Not the Orgasm, It’s the Connection: Igniting Eroticism After Recovery.”
Join me and many others for an informative weekend in Seattle!
For more information go to www.usjt.com
