What does it mean exactly to be treated for "s*x addiction"?

Question

I just read the David Duchovny is in treatment.

What's the difference between s*x addiction and love of s*x?

Where is the line drawn?

Answer 1

It means he got caught with his pants down..every celebrity who gets caught doing something goes to rehab..it is never their fault it is their addiction.

Answer 2

come over my house and ill show you

Answer 3

Sexual addiction is compulsive – the person keeps continuing the behavior even when the effects are negative. If you love s*x and have plenty of it as part of a healthy relationship, great. But if you can't stop thinking about sexual acts even when you know that you robsession is hurting your relationships and social life (or even intruding on other things like work or sleep), that's when it's an addiction.

The Wikipedia article on sexual addiction explains it pretty well.

Answer 4

Being treated for s*x addiction means that your getting help in overcoming sexual urges. s*x addiction is when your addicted to s*x and pornography, etc. It is something that you can't control like alcoholism and a drug addiction. Yes there are people who need to be treated for s*x addiction. Love of s*x means that you like s*x but not necessarily that your addicted to it or that you need help in overcoming it.

Answer 5

I know it sounds silly, but if you think about it, people get addicted to other things, so why would s*x be any different?

To be addicted to something means that you become dependant on it to the point where it affects the rest of your life and you become unhealthy.

So, he's probably got a problem where he's obsessed with s*x to the point that it's ruining the rest of his life.

Perhaps he's having affairs or perhaps he's just destroying his relationship with his wife without affairs being an issue.

It's the same as say eating chocolate.  You can love chocolate and have it regularly, or you can obsess over chocolate.  You might "have to" eat chocolate.  Maybe your friends just get tired of spending time with you because all you want to do is get somewhere to buy chocolate instead of enjoying whatever else you're doing.  Maybe you get really fat because of the chocolate.  Maybe you spend too much money on it.

You can be addicted to just about anything.  I think I might be slightly addicted to the internet.  I know some people are.  Some people get really addicted to MySpace.  There's a video on Youtube of some kid who totally loses it because his brother interupts his MySpace session.