Authors: Barry Reay, Nina Attwood, Claire Gooder
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-06 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis,