The Emperor's New Addiction

March, 1990

In my nine years as a sex therapist, I've treated hundreds of individuals and couples. I've worked with various people who couldn't get it up, couldn't get it off, couldn't get enough, didn't want to do it and who were, sexually speaking, afraid of their own shadows. But I've never treated a single sex addict. That is because sexual addiction does not exist.It doesn't exist because it's a set of moral beliefs disguised as science; it's a new twist on an old theme: sex as sickness. (In our own ce...