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LGBTQ Sex Addiction in the Digital Age: What’s Too Much?
By Greg Bodin, MFT
Greg is a therapist at the Male lover Therapy Center who specializes in sexual compulsion and addiction. He sees clients at the Union Square Gay Therapy Center in San Francisco, and worldwide by phone and Skype.
It’s getting easier to get laid. Geolocating social apps, messaging apps, and videoconferencing have made finding and having sex easier than it used to be. For some, this has been a great improvement – a faster way to encounter new people, search fantasies, and include lots of sex. For others the sexual digital age has started or worsened a problematic relationship to sex. Here’s an example:
John (not a genuine person) arrives at work, plows through his email, becomes stressed by an upcoming project encounter, and decides he’ll get to it in 15 minutes. He pulls out his phone and looks at Tinder, Grindr, Blendr, Growlr or one of the many other available apps, depending on his preferences. Minutes turn into hours as John searches for the right person, maybe someone downtown for a lunch affair. He doesn’t detect the time and soon the 1pm meeting approaches. John’s anxiety skyrockets as he realizes that he
In November of 2011, Newsweek featured a cover story on sexual addiction which was part of the growing attention by produce, web, and television media dealing with the crucial but controversial subject. As a result of the story, a conservative, Christian website, LifeSiteNews, responded with interesting zeal about one aspect of Newsweek’s study. The LifeSiteNews piece wanted to highlight for their readership, not simply the problem of sexual addiction and dysfunction among the population at large, but sexual addiction among homosexuals in particular. Their comments were received by those outside of LifeSiteNews’ constituency as largely biased and specifically homophobic. From the LifeSiteNews response: “[H]omosexuals are known for having superficial, short-term relationships and hundreds of lifetime sex partners…” (There was no study citation to back up this claim.) Still, part of Newsweek’s piece had, in fact, touched on same-sex encounters as they relate to sex addiction, so it may skillfully be important to ask: Are homosexually-identifying people more likely to experience sexual addiction than heterosexuals? Regarding the matter of homosex
How my sex addiction led to me chasing HIV
My mum would leave for work at 4.30 in the morning. My brother and I would fetch up just after she had left the house, and my brother would play on the PlayStation and I would look at porn on the computer. Then we would swap.
I was always on moment for the institution bus at 7am, but every evening I would slice it closer than the day before. I was trying to masturbate for as a lengthy as possible. It’s called 'edging'. I would try and edge for hours.
As a kid, I had swimming training twice a week.
I would go, swim a few lengths, and then spend 20 minutes masturbating in a cubicle in the changing room.
At weekends, I would spend all afternoon in my room claiming to be working, but actually I would just be watching porn.
As a kid you’re supposed to contain your own intimate space. But if I tried to hide anything from my mum, it would lead to crazy arguments. I think watching porn like this, right under my mum’s nose, gave me a sense of being in control.
My first sexual life was giving a blowjob to someone in a forest when I was 18.
I had started to chat to men online - there was no chance of me meeting people in real life. He was 34, and n
Man Says Parkinson's Drug Made Him Addicted to Gambling and Gay Sex
Feb. 2, 2011— -- Didier Jambart, 51, of Nantes, France, is suing the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, claiming the drug he took to treat his Parkinson's symptoms, Requip, turned him into a gambling and gay sex addict.
The married father of two said he blew through his family's savings and even took to stealing to finance his online gambling habit, the French Urge Agency reported. He also became addicted to homosexual sex and risky sexual encounters that led to him being raped, his lawyers said.
Parkinson's disease destroys neurons deep within the brain that release the "feel-good" neurotransmitter dopamine. Requip belongs to a class of drugs called dopamine agonists that relieve motor symptoms, such as shaking, stiffness, slowness and trouble balancing, by activating dopamine receptors. But the drugs have side effects that, while rare, are serious.
"There are plenty of reports of people developing side effects from Parkinson's drugs, such as hypersexuality, gambling and excessive shopping," said Dr. David Standaert, professor and interim chairman of
Parkinson's Patient Wins Lawsuit Over Gay Sex Addiction
Nov. 29, 2012— -- A French man who claimed a Parkinson's drug turned him into a gambling and gay sex addict has been awarded 197,000 euros in damages, the French Press Agency reported.
Didier Jambart, 52, of Nantes, France, sued the pharmaceutical enormous GlaxoSmithKline in 2011, claiming the drug, Requip, caused him to lose 82,000 euros gambling on the Internet. He said he also became addicted to gay sex and risky sexual encounters. He said he was raped after starting the drug in 2003 and attempted suicide eight times.
"It's a wonderful day," Jambart, who was accompanied by his wife during the emotional decree, told the French Urge Agency. "It's been a seven-year battle with our limited means for recognition of the fact that GSK lied to us and shattered our lives."
Parkinson's disease destroys neurons profound within the brain that release the "feel-good" neurotransmitter dopamine. Requip belongs to a class of drugs called dopamine agonists that relieve Parkinson's symptoms -- such as shaking, stiffness, slowness and trouble balancing -- by activating dopamine re