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An addiction which uses sex in all its forms to escape reality.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ADDICTION?

1)  A brain disease
2)  An illness of escape from reality
3)  Compulsive and progressive
4)  Causes changes in personality
5) Medicating
6) Cunning and baffling
7) Destructive

HOW DOES SEX ADDICTION DEVELOP?

1)  A genetic predisposition to addictions in general.
2)  Often addicts come from families in which other members suffer from addictions.
3)  The family system is rigid and disengaged.
4)  Sexual abuse in childhood
5)  Other forms of abuse in childhood
6)  Depression frequently accompanies both sex addiction and sexual anorexia.  Feelings of despair often intensify both addictive and anorexic obsessions.
7)  High stress situations, even when there are no other predisposing factors
8)  Other addictions