Many people write off sex addiction as an easy excuse for bad behaviour. But sex addicts aren’t perverts with no self-control, they’re emotionally wounded, experts have claimed, according to Medical Daily.
Therapists said those suffering from the so-called addiction – who have relentless sexual urges that feel out of their control – have usually experienced trauma as a child.
They use sex to self-medicate against the unconscious trauma they experienced when they were young, which left them feeling unworthy of love.
Robert Weiss, founder of The Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles, US, said sex addicts have been traumatised through neglect and abuse.
He told journalist Lizette Borelli: ‘Rather than being “overly horny”, “perverts”, or simply people with a “high sex drive”, sex addicts are most often people who’ve been emotionally wounded, usually early and repeatedly, in ways that leave them feeling unworthy of love, affection, connection, and happiness.’
They tend to be adults who had developed what he called ‘attachment-related trauma’ early in childhood, he said.
This includes emotional, physical or sexual abuse by a parent or caregiver, including neglect, incest and parental enmeshment – where parents source their entire self-worth and happiness from their children, he added.
These children develop an innate sense of shame and grow up feeling that any negative experience they have is because they’re ‘unloveable’, Mr Weiss said.
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