Sexual Addiction: An Overview

Man Uses Dating Sites and Facebook to Fuel Sex Addiction

Clive Worth, a 60-year-old British ex-miner, claims to have met and slept with an estimated 1,500 women with the help of the Internet, including social media sites like Facebook.

Parkinson’s Patients Claim Medication Causes Gambling, Sex Addictions

A group of more than 100 individuals who were prescribed medications for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease is filing a class action lawsuit against two Australian pharmaceutical companies who market the medications. The claimants in the case allege that the medications Cabaser, an Australian brand of cabergoline marketed by the Pfizer pharmaceutical company, and Permax, an Australian brand of pergolide marketed by Aspen Pharmacare, caused a range of unrelated addiction disorders, including gambling addiction and sex addictions. Both medications are dopamine receptor agonists that mimic the presence of dopamine in the brain and are used to treat tremors caused by Parkinson’s disease.

Researcher Says Human Instinct to Blame for Sexual Addiction, Obesity, and More

Groundbreaking new research suggests that the evolutionary impulses that allowed our ancestors to survive on the Savannah are sabotaging us in the modern world. According to Deirdre Barrett, a clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, our lingering primal urges have helped give rise to the obesity epidemic, social isolation, poor risk-assessment tendencies, and sex addiction, among countless other things—all because our biology hasn’t caught up to the way we live.

Confessions of a Sex Addict

When Jack Rogers first heard media reports of Tiger Woods’ multiple extramarital affairs, he tallied up the number of women who claimed to have slept with the famous golfer. "I said to myself, ‘My God, that’s some body count,’ " Rogers remembers.

Are You a Sex Addict?

Take the following quiz from Sexaholics Anonymous to see whether you might be suffering from sexual addiction.

Phil Varone Talks Sex Addiction with Dr. Drew

On “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew,” Phil Varone tells Dr. Drew Pinksy and sex addiction therapist Jill Vermeire that he “needs to have women’s bodies.” He talks about watching women from windows and other voyeuristic and exhibitionistic behavior. But as much as he craves sexual variety, he longs for a real relationship with a woman.

Dr. Drew Talks Sex Addiction on Oprah

“It is one of the problems of our time,” said Dr. Drew Pinsky, an addiction specialist and host of VH1’s “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew,” of sexual addiction. “We’ve just been through a period of history where sexuality was viewed as a revolution and [people thought] it’s okay to do whatever you’re into, but the fact is, sexuality has become a drug in our culture,” he continued.

Brain Surgeon Says Pornography is a “True Addiction”

There were three anti-porn conferences held over the weekend in Pocatello, Idaho Falls, and Rexburg, Idaho.

Kari Ann Peniche Talks About “Sex Rehab” with Howard Stern

Former Miss Teen USA and Playboy playmate Kari Ann Peniche visited the Howard Stern Show studios Monday morning to talk about her history of sex addiction and her participation in Dr. Drew Pinsky’s VH1 show “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew.”