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Sex: Are Addiction and Obsession Different?
Lord Irvine Laidlaw’s admission to regular splashes on kinky, drug-fuelled orgies with £3,000-a-night prostitutes behind his wife's back after a tabloid newspaper revealed the sordid details, is the latest in the line of the rich and famous who have admitted to this compulsion.
Confessing to the label "sex addict" may add star value with a young audience for celebrities such as pop stars and budding film actors.
What comes as a surprise is that Lord Irvine Laidlaw is Scotland’s fourth-richest man; a 64-year-old married lord and a significant donor to the Conservative Party.
Lord Laidlaw’s admission to sex exploits has added him to the list of celebrities such as Russell Brand, Michael Douglas and Ulrika Jonsson who have admitted to the condition and sought therapy for sex addiction.
Sex addiction as a concept is relatively recent. A conference in California in 2000 had psychologists warning that the Internet was "revolutionizing sexuality".
Pauline Brown, a sexual and relationship psychotherapist in Glasgow said that sex addiction is recognized as an addiction to sexual activity that becomes compulsive and takes over lives over a period of time. She observed that there was an increase in referrals to her practice last year by five or six new male patients each month.
Brown said: "The internet has made this more common. There's an accessibility that has opened up a massive opportunity on so many levels. I see patients that start out with access to porn, then chat rooms, then meeting people from chat rooms, then moving on to using sex workers.”
Confessing to the label "sex addict" may add star value with a young audience for celebrities such as pop stars and budding film actors.
What comes as a surprise is that Lord Irvine Laidlaw is Scotland’s fourth-richest man; a 64-year-old married lord and a significant donor to the Conservative Party.
Lord Laidlaw’s admission to sex exploits has added him to the list of celebrities such as Russell Brand, Michael Douglas and Ulrika Jonsson who have admitted to the condition and sought therapy for sex addiction.
Sex addiction as a concept is relatively recent. A conference in California in 2000 had psychologists warning that the Internet was "revolutionizing sexuality".
Pauline Brown, a sexual and relationship psychotherapist in Glasgow said that sex addiction is recognized as an addiction to sexual activity that becomes compulsive and takes over lives over a period of time. She observed that there was an increase in referrals to her practice last year by five or six new male patients each month.
Brown said: "The internet has made this more common. There's an accessibility that has opened up a massive opportunity on so many levels. I see patients that start out with access to porn, then chat rooms, then meeting people from chat rooms, then moving on to using sex workers.”
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01/22/2009
Sexual addiction is a serious problem, but, to my mind, more serious problem nowadays is children’s Internet addiction. For example, I have to limit my son's time spent online by using so-called internet filtering software . With the help of this easy-to-use tool I can block Internet browsers, e-mails, ftps or messengers according to my daily schedule and now I am relieved.
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