Straight talk, up-to-date information and resources for individuals and couples about sexual addiction, cybersex addiction, sexual anorexia, sexual desire and sexual dysfunction.
Bill Hearing in Atlanta, Georgia has written a terrific article in order to reach people who don’t get the help they need because they resist the word “addict”. He writes, “It seems to me that there are only a
few other words they can use, and each carries its own profound implication
that people often choose to overlook, generally to their own detriment.” Sex Addiction Therapy Los Angeles
To read this article, click on the link below and let us know what you think.
New York Magazine writer, Davy Rothbart, takes us on an honest journey of what watching too much pornography can do to mens ability to keep an erection or ejaculate. He never talks about “addiction” to porn or cybersex addiction, but he makes it clear that porn affects the brain/bodies of men who overindulge. Porn Addiction Los Angeles
Sally Ryder Brady reveals a life of abuse in her marriage to an alcoholic and sex addict. This memoir, written by a widow who discovered, upon her husband’s death after almost 50 years of marriage, that he had a double life, affairs with men and gay porn, and he was $70 thousand dollars in debt. The memoir is about her reflecting back on her life and trying to figure out “what do I know that I didn’t know I knew until now?” Her husband, a well-regarded editor of Atlantic Monthly, was an emotionally abusive alcoholic and she of course, had grown up in an abusive family, making her a primary candidate to marry an addict. Partners of a Sex Addict Los Angeles
To read more in-depth reviews of the book and to order the book, go to the link below:
How do you do it today? How do you bring up sexually healthy kids when there is so much pornography available at the click of a mouse? Take a look at this article by Gail Danes, author of “Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.” Porn Addiction Los Angeles
After you read the article, let us know what you think!
Is sex addiction treatment big business OR is the problem growing so rapidly that treatment centers are needed? The Los Angeles Times ran an article on Monday, November 15 posing these questions and begain the article with the services the Center for Healthy Sex provides:
When she hung out her shingle as a sex addiction therapist in 1997, Alexandra Katehakis had only a handful of colleagues.
“There were five people in this field and we all knew each other,” she said.
These days, Katehakis, a licensed marriage and family therapist, has hundreds of competitors and has grown her Los Angeles solo practice into the Center for Healthy Sex, “a full-blown organization” with a team of counselors, an intensive outpatient program, a range of therapy groups, an expansive website and training for other therapists.
Celebrities have been the greatest evangelists for treatment. “My practice wouldn’t exist without them,” Katehakis said.
A recent article in Marie Claire Magazine talks about how sex addiction affects females. I believe women get caught in a neuro-hormonal roller coaster where they chase sex for love hoping to meet “the one.” Take a look at this well-written article. Female sex Addiction Treatment Los Angeles
Women have a lot of difficulty getting the courage to reach out and get the help they need when it comes to problematic sexual behaviors. A the Center for Healthy Sex, we’re committed to helping women talk about and heal from these issues without shame.
To learn more about this problem, take a look at this article I co-wrote with Caroline Frost of CHS
Mr. Woods is a partner in the litigation practice of White & Case and practices complex commercial litigation throughout the United States.
Recently in Federal Court, Mr. Woods represented the Log Cabin Republicans, a nonprofit organization, pro bono in a challenge to the Government’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prevents gays and lesbians from openly revealing their sexuality or risk discharge. The lawsuit was seeking a ruling that the policy violates constitutional protections of due process, equal protection, and freedom of speech
Just this month a Federal Judge in California struck down the discriminatory federal policy barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips said the ban violated the first amendment and due process rights of gay and lesbian service members. The judge will issue an injunction to halt the policy, but the Justice Department can appeal.
Alexandra Katehakis is Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a certified sex addiction therapist, a certified sex therapist, and a supervisory consultant to the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals.
Her new book is Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction.
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Cybersex activities are not only viewing or downloading pornography along with masturbation, but also reading and writing sexually explicit letters and stories, e-mailing to set up personal meetings with someone, placing ads to meet sexual partners, visiting sexually oriented chat rooms, and engaging in interactive online affairs which include real-time viewing of each other using electronic cameras hooked up to the computer.
According to Dr. Mark Schwartz’s book “Sex on the Net is like heroin,” “Cybersex grabs people and takes over their lives, and treatments are very difficult because the people affected don’t want to give it up.”
