First of all, I will explain the difference between sex addiction and porn addiction as the 2 are very different.

Dr Patrick Carnes was the first person to coin the phrase "sex addict" in his 1983 book "Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction". Then in the first landmark study of sex addicts and their families in the 1980s (summarized in Carne's 1991 book "Don't Call it Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction" documenting his work with 1000 sex addicts) Dr Carnes found that those who were neglected, abused, molested or raped as children or who were otherwise exposed to violence and/ or sexually inappropriate behavior at a young age are those most at risk for developing sex addiction. Dr Carnes concluded that sex addicts use sex as a way to self medicate and to numb their psychological pain.

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