Treatment for sex addiction usually occurs after something unfortunate happens.
“Something puts the addict over the line,” Dr. Carnes says. “A doctor kills a patient because he’s been up all night bingeing on sex, or a businessman loses his marriage when the paper prints a story about his arrest for soliciting a prostitute.
“At some point, addicts realize they’re in trouble,” Dr. Carnes says. “They have less and less control over the behavior, it’s getting more and more risky to satisfy. Like alcoholics, they...
