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Since the DSM working group began announcing their proposals for new sexual diagnoses, I’ve been slowly making my way through the research that their proposals are based on, trying to glean some idea of how they arrived at what sometimes seem like fantastical proposals for the next twenty years of psychiatric intervention in our sex lives.

In the meantime the media’s fascination with sex addiction has increased, thanks to the latest celebrity sex news (I’m waiting for someone to call Mo’Nique’s husband a sex addict and Mo’Nique herself an enabler based on her refreshing honesty in an interview with Barbara Walters about her marriage).

You don’t need me to point you to articles that misunderstand and misrepresent sex addiction. That’s most of them. I thought I’d point out two articles in the past two months that try to do the opposite.

Michael Bader – Sex Addiction: A B.S. Excuse for Not Thinking

Raymond Lawrence – America’s Sexual Burlesque: The Brave New World of Sexual Addiction

Related – What Is Sex Addiction? ; Am I A Sex Addict? ; What’s Wrong with Sex Addiction?

Tipping the Scales on Sex Addiction originally appeared on About.com Sexuality on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 09:02:14.

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