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This document discusses sex addiction, its types, and recovery. It presents the case study of "John" who struggled with sex addiction from a young age due to sexual abuse. John exhibited addictive behaviors like frequent masturbation and casual sex. He was diagnosed with biological, psychological, and intimacy anorexia types of sex addiction. The document outlines Dr. Douglas Weiss's model of six sex addiction types and strategies for mitigating each type in recovery, like therapy and support groups. It encourages sex addicts to admit their condition and seek help to turn their lives around.

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Sex Addiction PDF

This document discusses sex addiction, its types, and recovery. It presents the case study of "John" who struggled with sex addiction from a young age due to sexual abuse. John exhibited addictive behaviors like frequent masturbation and casual sex. He was diagnosed with biological, psychological, and intimacy anorexia types of sex addiction. The document outlines Dr. Douglas Weiss's model of six sex addiction types and strategies for mitigating each type in recovery, like therapy and support groups. It encourages sex addicts to admit their condition and seek help to turn their lives around.

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SERIES 1

BATTLING ADDICTION:

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DISCLAIMER

The contents of this series are predicated on sexuality and


certain segments of this series delve in contextualizing experiences
that bear sexual events that are entirely NOT for any other
purpose but meant as part of key inferential areas of this
educative scope.

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THE ONSET
Sex addiction,…, is it even a thing?
Well, you probably hold the opinion that it is not an apparent problem. We live in
a society where the brazen act of being a hyper-sexual person gains you
admiration among your peers. Take for instance men, the more women you have
slept with, the higher you rank in the hierarchy of ‘Alpha-maleism’.

However, it is this entrenched misconception that is slowly drawing a majority of


young people into sexual addiction without even knowing. Just like alcoholism,
drug and substance abuse, sexual addiction is by all means a problem.

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THE TYPES OF SEX ADDICTS

There is need to know that being a sex addict is a general outlook to the problem,
However, it is more relevant to understand that there are different types of sex
addicts. Confirmedly, sex addicts stratify into six (6) main categories;

Mood Disorder Sexual Abuse Spiritual

Intimacy Anorexia &


Psychological Biological
Sex addiction

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John (Not his real name), currently in his early 40s is a man that has battled sex
addiction since he was 8 years old. What started off as innocent curiosity of
discovering girls and sex has gone on to translate to almost 20 years of persistent
sex addiction.

Though currently undergoing therapy and recovery, John knows first-hand what
it means to be held captive by sex addiction. At the age of 9 years, he had his first
real sexual encounter with the house maid who at the time was around 30-32
years. The spiral continues with him scaling up to further discovering more
avenues of deriving sexual thrill. By the time he hit 14 years, John had slept with
over 23 women.

At 14 years, he was just coming into his element, undergoing adolescence, an era
that equally came with more thrills and interest adding to his already existing
sexual addiction. John discovered masturbation, this discovery proved to be an
exciting avenue of deriving sexual relief and convenient at the time since he was
still juggling school work and demands of the same. John got deeply hooked onto
masturbation that he would even do it in class, while lessons were going on

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simply to get the relief and concentrate more. In a day, John would masturbate
well over 6 times.

Fast forward,………..John joined campus and, with the freedom came the
availability of women. Coupled up with his masturbation addiction, he now
become serially addicted to casual sex and still masturbated (though not as
frequent as before). To John, sex was a sense of relief…not love or affection. The
need to shut down the senses of not belonging, or loneliness drove him deeper
into always being sexually involved with someone.

The addiction become so grave in his 30s whereby he would sleep with 3-4
different women a week at least, and still supplement with masturbation on the
regular. At the time, John had still maintained his primary relationship with his
fiancée (Amara) of over 7 years. All along in their relationship, Amara had
noticed and even discovered John was seeing other women on the side; an aspect
that tore deeply into their relationship. Amara finally walked out of the
relationship, it was at this point that John realized he needed to get help and
change.

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Before Amara walked out, she made it clear to John that he was suffering from
sex addiction and needed help. John took this seriously and positively and
enrolled for sex addiction therapy and also delved into reading and learning more
about recovering from sex addiction. John is now two (2) years in his recovery
journey and doing firmly well. Sex addiction can be mitigated.

Sex Addiction is Damaging to both you and your partner

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Diagnosing John’s Sex Addiction Type
Basing on the six types of sex addicts, it is possible to infer which type of sex
addict John lies under.
Underlying Indicators:
• Sex abuse at 8 years old
• Exposure to pornographic content
• Addiction to masturbation

Expert Inference
Using Dr. Douglas Weiss’s ‘6 types of sex addict’ model, it is possible to
understand that John suffered from not just one but three types of sex addict
categories. - biological, psychological and intimacy anorexia sexual addiction

Is this Possible?

Dr. Douglas Weiss, explains that it is possible for a person to be


a multi-sex type addict. If left unchecked and unmitigated, sex
addiction transcends to more advanced addiction levels similar
to cases seen in drugs addicts or alcoholics who start off with
one puff, drink and escalate to full blown addiction.

Dr. Douglas Weiss


The founder and executive director of
Heart to Heart Counselling Centre
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THE RECOVERY JOURNEY
Each category of sex addicts needs to be mitigated in specific ways and
approaches that are pertinent to that respective category. Here are
possible ways of mitigating the various categories of sex addiction

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Having gone through this dossier, it is our hope that for any sex addict, this forms
the basis of your turning point. Admitting to being a sex addict does not mean
you are broken in any way, it takes power, confidence and love for those who
mean dear to you, to start your journey.

For more information, assistance and guidance,

Use the below official handles:

[email protected]

+254 729 658 149

Nairobi, KENYA

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