What's so unique about sex addiction?

Sex addiction impacts heavily on a person’s every aspect of his or her life. It is also very complicated. Unlike other addictions there are many different types of sex addictions including masturbation, porn, promiscuity, infidelity, phone sex, pedophile, nymphomania, strip clubs, prostitutes. Before a problem can be solved you have to know what you dealing with. In other words before trying to stop sex addiction one must understand how the addiction works and why one is acting sexually addictive. Every sexual addiction is different. For instance someone who has a problem with masturbation and is single does not have the same problem as a person who is in a relationship who is hooked on prostitutes. A single person’s entire sexual experience has been only with himself through masturbation addiction while the person who is having sex with prostitutes has his sexual experience with someone else. But knowing and understanding your particular sexual addictive behavior does not end it. That is just half of the battle.

One another thing to note, incorrect withdrawal to a sex addiction causes symptoms that are much more painful and felt deeply than a substance addiction like alcohol or drugs. You go running back to your addictive behavior rather than continue in an extremely painful withdrawal.