Sex Addiction
Reay, Barry / Attwood, Nina / Gooder, Claire![Sex Addiction](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/173/17349598/CHSBZCOP0317349598.jpg)
The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids a...