Sexual Addiction

If your sexual behaviors create legal, relationship, career, emotional or physical consequences, yet you continue to engage in those sexual behaviors anyway, then you likely have a problem. If your sexual behaviors take up more time, energy and focus than you would like or if they cause you to persistently act out in ways that go against your underlying values and beliefs, then you are likely a sex addict. Sex addicts, both men and women often find themselves thinking, This is the last time that I am going to... yet they ultimately feel compelled to return to the same or similar sexual situations, despite previous commitments to change.

Sex addicts are often unable to make and keep commitments to themselves and others about stopping or changing particular sexual activities over the long term and most sex addicts - whether they wish admit to it or not - have longstanding problems with relationships and intimacy. Sex addicts describe feelings of overwhelming intensity when fantasizing about and preparing to sexually act out, describing this intensity state as being in the bubble or like being in a trance. This form of adrenaline rush is typical of sex addicts when fantasizing and preparing to act out and it is often a more powerful distraction than the sex act itself. Typical sexual addict behaviors include compulsive use of Internet porn, websites and online hook-ups, frequent anonymous or casual sex, consistent use of prostitutes, sexual massage, escorts, multiple affairs, frequent sex outside of primary relationships and compulsive masturbation.

I Corinthians 10:13 - No temptation has seized you except what is common to man.  And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.  But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.