The sex addiction myth

I'll keep an open mind about this, but this idea of "sexual addiction" is dubious. If a married couple have sex every day, that's considered healthy. If a man has sex every day, but never with the same woman two days in a row, he is labeled a sick "sex addict."

Yes, that man with the many partners is having a problem with commitment, but to say he's addicted to sex seems to me like saying we're addicted to oxygen if we like to breathe in many places. A man who feels a need for relatively frequent sex isn't an addict; he probably has a high level of testosterone.

So is a naturally high level of testosterone an addiction? Is it a crime? Is is a sin? There's no evidence it's any of those things. Then again, our prison populations are disproportionately represented by those with testosterone, and almost certainly are over-represented by people with high testosterone. 

Frank Warner

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