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Addiction - 12 Step Recovery (505 words) |
 | Sexual addiction is thought to originate in childhood or adolescence, usually the result of a lack of affection in a person's upbringing or a neglectful homelife. |
 | Compulsive masturbation is a sexual compulsion and is highly corelated with pornography. |
 | Compulsive viewing of pornography is also regarded as a sexual compulsion as is compulsive sex with prostitutes and anonymous sex with multiple partners. |
| Addicted to Love: Sex, Love & Compulsion (1675 words) |
 | Sexual compulsion is often accompanied by complex, competing feelings of arousal and shame, excitation and embarrassment. |
 | Problems of sexual control are usually victimizing - both to the addict, who feels powerless to stop, and others, who serve only as objects of his or her arousal. |
 | The toll that compulsive sexuality takes is often seen in a loss of intimacy with loved ones, including problems in family functioning, communication, and marital sex life. |