Sex addicts make for great Hollywood movies. They make for saucy reading in saucy magazines

and novels. They even find their way into our courtrooms where sex addiction has been

used as a defense. But when you ask psychologists whether it's even a real thing or not, you

might be surprised to hear what they have to say, or what most of them have to say,

anyway. Sex addiction is today on Skeptoid.

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All about sex addiction. You can virtually set your watch by it. Whenever a celebrity

has caught any well-publicized infidelity or sexual harassment case, you can count the

seconds until their press agent announces they are seeking treatment for sex addiction.

While it's a handy get-out-of-jail-free card that suggests a medical problem is the true

perpetrator, it's one that hardly has universal recognition. It appears that for just about

every case of an expert acknowledging the problem as a true addiction, there's another

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