The roots of sex addiction also reach back to childhood experience. Sex addiction authority Dr. Aviel Goodman points out that the vast majority of female sex addicts were sexually abused as children, as were up to 40 per cent of the men.1 “Human beings are very adaptable,” Dr. Goodman comments. Being held and cuddled is so important to us that we’ll associate love with whatever gives us that warmth and contact. If a person feels wanted only sexually, as an adult she may look to sex to reaffirm that she is loveable and wanted. Sex addicts who were not abused as children may have had more subtle
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