The Sex Addiction Rabbit Hole

Sex addiction might be a “myth”, but all myths make sense of the world in some particular way. What does “sex addiction” do for us?

Sex addiction exploded into public consciousness in the early 2010s, when a slew of critical articles were written after the American Psychiatric Association announced that “hypersexual disorder” would be added to its diagnostic manual. Some indications point to a declining phenomenon: several residential sex addiction treatment centers have closed, cer…