When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and being seen fuels lust and desire. This is exactly the way you integrate healthy lust and love into your sex life. It’s relational sex, not the old pornographic sex of past addictions.Alexandra Katehakis
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Sexual addiction or sexual compulsion is a very common problem, and it often develops into a serious addiction that is difficult to overcome. Sexual addiction is defined as a compulsive need for sexual gratification that negatively impacts a person's life and relationships. Whenever a person becomes addicted to sex, he or she will use sex as a way to escape from reality. The person will feel empty inside because he or she is unable to enjoy life the way normal people do.
This empty feeling drives them to seek out sexual gratification even if it isn't healthy for their relationship. In addition, the lack of self-esteem may cause them to use sex as a way to get attention from others. As these addicts become more and more desperate, they may resort to prostitution or other harmful behaviors in order to get money for sex.
They may even end up hurting others in the process.
Source: Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While In Recovery From Sex Addiction
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