The facts about sexual addiction:Those who suffer from it may have serial affairs, frequent strip clubs and prostitutes, use pornography obsessively, or experience a compulsive need for sex many times a day.It is responsible for disease, divorce, and bankruptcy.It’s costly: In the year 2000 alone, Americans spent more than 8 billion dollars on hard-core videos, peep shows, live-sex shows, adult cable, computer porn, and sex magazines; strip clubs earned more money than all the theaters in the country, and commercial phone sex lines took in over $1 billion, according to Adult Video News.There’s help for sex addiction. A study by Tamara Penix Sbraga, Ph.D., and William O’Donohue, Ph.D., the authors of The Sex Addiction Workbook (August 04), suggests that men with problems ranging from excessive use of pornography to exhibitionism can experience a significant reduction in the severity and frequency of their loss of sexual self-control after undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). In clinical studies, CBT has been shown to be as effective as drug therapy for controlling some sexual desires and actions, without the occasionally negative side effects of drug treatment. The Sex Addiction Workbook offers a comprehensive, CBT-based program. Loss of sexual self-control is a problem we love to talk around but not about. Consider Bill Clinton, Pee-Wee Herman, and Hugh Grant. Their sexual improprieties have provided titillating fodder for thousands of media stories worldwide. As a result, we know an awful lot about Clinton’s extramarital affection for a certain intern, Pee-Wee’s ill-fated trip to an X-rated theater, and Grant’s infamous visit to the corner of Hollywood and Vine. Yet how often is the loss of sexual self-control–a problem that has clearly plagued all three–seriously addressed? When you consider that millions of lives are devastated by it, the answer is not often enough.

The Sex Addiction Workbook, Sbraga and O’Donohue, both experts in the research and treatment of sex addiction, offer the first nonreligious, non-twelve-step, research-proven program for identifying and overcoming sex addiction. They give readers the skills, information, and support they need to reclaim their lives from this underrecognized problem.

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