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I’m a sex addict.

There I said it. The only thing that motivates me to do anything is sex and to meet new attractive women. Yes, i do have the line of only dating women that are over 21. I can’t stand having to ask someone if they can have or enter an establishment that serves beverages. Anyways, sometimes it makes me feel dirty. Like a male whore. Why is it when I try to clean up my act and not be with so many different women at once, they all run away. They only bother with me when i’m treating them horribly, lieing to them about where i’ve been or who I’ve been with. To say its the women i’m seeing would be an easy answer, but even the ones at church seem to have lustful tendencies. Like the dirtier I am the more excited they are to be with me. Meanwhile, its seriously giving me heart problems. The stress of trying to juggle so many women, its seriously effecting me. So I’ve stopped. Where is the happy medium. I would be happy being a one woman man, but it seems for me its either be a male whore, or spend week after week coming home to nobody. My guy friends are all going off getting married, so hanging out with them is not happening, and in truth the double life i’ve been leading is just turning everyone against me. My guy friends don’t really trust me anymore, they think i’m ready to sleep with their women the moment they turn their backs. My guy friends have stopped hanging out with me, as I have them though as well cause it seems like we were just drinking buddies, and when they chose to go further and start taking hard drugs, I walked away. My good guy friends are always worrying about their honey-do lists and can’t do anything. So going out with a bunch of guys just to have fun, not trying to pick up women doesn’t happen anymore. I find that when we did go out we took whatever we could get that day/night in the way of a woman (not thinking that one day that would end). Moreover, I find myself needing to see more than one woman because I don’t get all of my needs met by one woman. No offense to the woman that has stood by my side through thick and thin, but in reality shes boring me to death. There is no conversation, she comes in the house and turns the tv on and if the tv isn’t on, there isn’t anything there. We are moving in two different directions. She is trying to settle down and “just be happy”, and I feel like there is still so much left in this life to do. The other woman I’ve been dating has to finish finalizing her divorce (she moved out, was out of the same state, and was separated before we met) yet I feel like I was a rebound for her (yet she tells me that she has loved me). Part of me just wants to put an end to both of those relationships as well, and just be better off alone. And I don’t mean I want to be an island, but I guess I need to take the risk of losing these two and starting over. This time without the male friends as well to hang out with. Which leads me back to my original statement. The cycle of sex. Why can I not be content with a beautiful loving relationship? Why can i not make love to a woman? Why is it that I won’t stay at a job if there isn’t either a) enough money, b) any “eye-candy”? I get bored working for someone else, so I’ve tried going out on my own. I feel dirty taking scantily clad photos like i’m some porn douche bag. I want to be respected as a photographer, as a person, but the truth is I love seeing naked women. I’m buring myself, like I’m dead inside and the prodigal son. If anyone I actually liked was to be with me, sure at first it might be exciting (but I wouldn’t be relationship material) so I feel like I’d be dropped once they know the real person. I guess I’m the definition of a man boy. The fact that I’m not a man just sucking it up, and that I’m actually writing it on here just goes to show you that I’m being a boy trapped in a man’s body and that I need to grow up, right? Why is it that i’m so idealistic that I need to have a full package wife? The active gym type that will get back into shape after having children (and run the race of life with me and be active in our outdoor activities) model type, great conversationalist, elegant and classy. Does a woman not become elegant and classy until after you’ve married her? Is it that i’m such a male whore that no elegant and classy woman would ever have me? I wish this were true, but as soon as i stop doing this they instead don’t even notice me like I’m boring to them. As if what they really want is a james bond kinda guy that will take risks, sleep with countless women, and not tell about it. I guess the truth is I’m just not a nice person, I’m like a rabbit - horny all the time, selfish, and bored unless i can flirt with a hot woman. Maybe I’m more addicted to flirting than I am to sex, but I doubt it.

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melt offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (12 minutes after post)

so what’s your phone number?

…kidding. i really think this is just a timing issue with you because it seems to go beyond sex.

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Dragon_Lady offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (12 minutes after post)

This is going to be tough.

There are people who will see this as a problem. Others, as an accomplishment.

First, you need to love yourself. You can’t love anyone, anywhere, ever without loving yourself and accepting yourself first. That’s AlL of yourself!

Second, you need counselling. I think the root of the problem -but mind you, I’m no doctor- is an attachment disorder.

Third, you need to figure out what you want in a partner -or if you even want a partner at all. Then, try to concentrate your efforts on the people who are most likely able to give you what you really want.

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theresape offline Verified User (1 year, 12 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
Waltham, MA, US | 1 year, 6 months ago (25 minutes after post)

I confess I have not read your whole message–it looked overwhelming. So I am responding to your headline.

And my response is this: What used to be informally referred to as a “sex addiction” is now recognized as a potential symptom of Bipolar II, which is a newly identified form of bipolar disorder that is said to be less severe than old-fashioned manic depression and even to have some actual creative benefits. Some sources even refer to it as “bipolar II (beneficial).”

My own response is to think of Bipolar II as what I call the “diagnosis du jour”–if they can’t figure out what’s eating you, they now call you Bipolar II. But I am not a clinician, and many clinicians whom I really respect swear that this newly categorized mental disorder is for-real and can be treated–although it does not always NEED treatment–just recognition and understanding can sometimes be sufficient.

If you are curious about it, google bipolar II or look on barnesandnoble.com for a wide range of literature on the subject.

Good luck.

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1 year, 6 months ago (27 minutes after post)

first… sex is an addiction because it is a drug. You take drugs when you want to escape from your life. Your brain is structured so it produces dopamine when you look at naked women. (woo hoo!) Some have this response when they see images of heroin or methamphetamines. It is how we are built differently. I will say that the only way is to talk to a counselor who specializes in sex therapy. I would go to a male counselor for best results.

By the way the only ones who see this as an accomplishment are the other addicts. From a real grounded perspective, this is not good… Some people spend their lives creating movies and writing stories, engineering and inventing. They work on big projects for long periods of time. Addicts just get wasted and sleep all day.

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Anonymous #
1 year, 6 months ago (27 minutes after post)

I always saw rabbits as hungry for more food. Didn’t know they flirted.

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Rand0 offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 9 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (29 minutes after post)

Honestly - I think your best bet is to post this problem on Help.com everyday and work through it with people who give you the best responses - over a few months.

Counselling is expensive, and you only ever get one person’s point of view, plus its not anonymous, so you have to censor youself. Try posting your neuroses here one by one and deal with each one individually.

If you have patience and the concentration span to see this thing through - there’s absolutely no reason why you should hold yourself back any longer.

Keep posting brother man. (And in the meantime, just pick one and go for her)

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Anonymous #
1 year, 6 months ago (30 minutes after post)

I think that in order to work out this problem, you have to spend lots of time away from that which ails you.

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1 year, 6 months ago (31 minutes after post)

Become gay. It will do you wonders….

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Anonymous #
1 year, 6 months ago (33 minutes after post)

melt wrote:
so what’s your phone number?

…kidding. i really think this is just a timing issue with you because it seems to go beyond sex.

b>lol /b>, I was going to say that but you beat me to it!

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1 year, 6 months ago (34 minutes after post)

wow! some skanks in here right now

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1 year, 6 months ago (40 minutes after post)

I don’t think he cares! The last replies were off topic.

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Anonymous #
1 year, 6 months ago (41 minutes after post)

You can’t be a sex addict without a partner. Who are these women and where do you meet them ??? (For research purposes of course….)

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (50 minutes after post)

Um, I think some of you have missed the point completely. Yes Surf1, we can see your age from your replies. We await your similar post in twenty years.

It’s like going off to war and trying to come back to a desk job. How does one do it?

And “I like pudding” seriously… was that to be enticing, or because you don’t have a real response to the conversation? Or “GO GAY TEAM!” - maybe for some that is the answer, but I for one know that that is a sin against the Father and (I don’t swing that way)…

For haybay9, though shalt not judge. I have turned to the Father for help, and I pray regularly for His help, which is why I have stopped being a man whore. The hardest part is letting go of the two women that are both not what he intended for me.

Yes, Anonymous - I as all of you are am a sinner. Since the day I was born.

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wattschick offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (1 week, 1 day after post)

is this my ex husband because he had the same problems our entire marriage. sux to be on the other side, think of that.

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