Real Sex Addiction Stories

If a person’s sexual behavior is out of control and they compulsively and secretly seek out the behavior while knowing the negative consequences, they may be addicted to sex. Below are real stories illustrating out of control sexual behavior.

Marriage Stress

Escaping a stressful marriage this business owner began working longer hours to avoid going home. Then he began hiding money to pay for prostitutes until his wife discovered it. He promised to stop but couldn’t. Instead he got better at hiding money and became more extreme with sexual activities.

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Anonymous Sexual Hook-ups

The patterns of meeting anonymous sex partners through on-line dating and hook-up sites escalated and became more risky for this sales representative. Facilitated by the anonymity of travel and tediousness of his high-paying sales job, his preoccupation loaded with denial one day led him to miss an important meeting for anonymous sex. He was caught, humiliated, and released from his job, which was his family’s only income source.

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C0-occurring & Hidden Other Addictions

This couple’s sex was satisfying until the husband asked his wife to include drugs. Reluctantly, she agreed. The drugs got increasingly bizarre and the sex more compulsive. Being disturbed by this, she no longer participated, yet her husband’s shame and behavior became unbearable. She came to believe he had a hidden drug addiction and had developed a sex addiction, both of which became unmanageable.

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Anonymous Sex Sought Online

This heterosexual, married professional man compulsively seeks online gay porn and online advertisements for anonymous sex with men. The internal shame and dissonance begins to make life unmanageable and he starts to experience his life unraveling.

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Alcohol Use to Lower Inhibitions

Alcohol use became essential as part of this free-lance professional’s bar scene. It lowered his self-consciousness when asking unknown women for selfies, which he was collecting. He spent inordinate hours isolated using the selfies in sexual fantasy and masturbation. To his thinking, these photos were not porn and the women freely participated in taking the selfies. His problem became apparent when his daughter discovered his selfie collection and didn’t buy into his denial.

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Church Member

Member of a church-based porn recovery group, this community leader would secretly isolate at his home bingeing on pornography and masturbation every other weekend. He created elaborate stories why he was unavailable to social and family gatherings, and he regularly lied to his church-based porn recovery group that he was abstinent. The inability to sustain his stories and secrets eventually forced him into professional sex addiction therapy.

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Lies, Secrets, Deceit

From the pretense of using the bathroom, this father of five concealed his masturbation and pornography use. His behavior escalated to more elaborate scheming and lying to his wife about what he was doing late at night, at work, and away on business trips. Then he got caught. The cycle of promising to stop, but not stopping, and the weight of the lies and hurt to his family became unbearable.

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