David Duchovny first broke it to the mainstream media, Bryan Jenkins, the reality TV show contestant who allegedly murdered his wife, was rumored to have suffered from it, and now, ex-ESPN analyst Steve Philips is seeking rehab for it after a sordid affair with a young production assistant. We're talking about sex addiction and the gossip media is all abuzz about this newfangled condition since these three recent, high-profile cases. 

PsychCentral.com defines sex addiction as, "a progressive intimacy disorder characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts." Obviously, this is frustratingly vague—what's to keep any serial cheater … Read More

We spend a lot of time thinking about celebrities' dating, canoodling, and marriage partners. It's kind of an occupational hazard. Eventually you see patterns forming, and while of course we can’t know what's actually going on in the private lives of our favorite entertainers and media fixtures, that doesn't stop us from admiring and trying to emulate them at times, whether it's a fantastic outfit or what looks like an effortlessly happy, mutually supportive relationship. And then there are the disasters, the twosomes we wish would break up and put each other, and us, out of their misery. Read on … Read More

After Governor Mark Sanford abandoned his state and his family to be with his mistress in Argentina, people applauded his long-suffering wife Jenny for kicking his lying butt to the curb. Yet even as she denounced his affair, she gave him a big gift … she called his cheating "an addiction." These days, people love characterizing everything as an addiction, from the frivolous to the frightening. In pop culture parlance, you can be a rage-aholic, a shop-aholic, and a choc-aholic. Addictions are serious things, but is cheating seriously an addiction?

Addicted to … Everything

Addiction is the inability to … Read More

Love Bytes: Five must-click sex, love and relationship links.

Looking for good dad material? Try these five spots. [Betty Confidential]

UK sex-education now includes initiative to educate teens on the pleasures of sex. [TresSugar]

You know you’re gonna have to face it, three ways to tell if you’re addicted to love. [Huffington Post]

I told the group, 'I keep thinking: Being with this person makes me happy. How could something that makes me feel so good... be bad?'

The man who'd burned down his house and killed his cousin stared at me. 'That's what I used … Read More

We hear about relationships torn apart by internet porn addiction, but where are the support groups for smut-loving women like me, who suddenly and inexplicably get turned off by porn when they fall in love?  Before I met my boyfriend, I was visiting youporn.com about a half an hour a day, hunting through dozens of clips to find the one most perfectly calibrated to turn me on. 

After I met my boyfriend, my visits to the site dropped off in equal proportion to how much I was getting off with a flesh-and-blood human being.

But my loss of appetite for porn … Read More

Love Bytes: three must click sex, dating and relationship links.

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase, "sex addiction?" A bunch of bull? [The Huffington Post]

With an invitation like this, you know the wedding is going to be a blast. [BuzzFeed]

One woman struggles to hold back her opinion on marriage. [First Wives World]

I could very well have broken down crying and hooked her up with the ideas running through my head. I would have pulled myself up out of the car and grasped at her collar in a melodramatic fashion, and through gritted … Read More

Is the whole world on crazy pills? Are we really allowing Mickey Rourke and Courtney Love the chance to date, mate and, possibly, procreate? Are we the only ones who think this is a bad idea? Seriously?

According to Celebuzz, the former hunka-hunka burnin' love and current cautionary tale turned feel-good story and the widow of Kurt Cobain have been seeing each other on the secretive tip for a few weeks. Elle decided to name Courtney Love the woman of the year in terms of fashion and the Mick attended the party in London.

Rumor has it that … Read More

When you hear the word "detox" all sorts of things come to mind: spas, juice fasts, colonics, rehab centers. People enter detoxification programs to rid their bodies of toxins, lose a little weight, maybe look and feel better about the damage they've done to their bodies. Detoxifications are done when you eat too many chips, drink too many drinks, do too many drugs. But how do you detoxify from poor love decisions? Is there a Promises out there for people who have had one toxic relationship after another? How do you take the damage done from too many Read More

Ever met someone with a propensity to date alcoholics? This man has, and he thinks some women gravitate towards these out-of-control men.

Lisa's seeing Matt. Matt's an alcoholic. Yet, still, Lisa's seeing Matt.Maybe it's where I live, but I've known a good many alcoholic men, and it's remarkable how well they do with women. I wasn't shocked that Lisa stuck with Matt for ages; I wasn't surprised how many times she gave him "one last chance" when he swore he was going to stop drinking; I was unastonished at the excuses she made for him, to me … Read More

Ever have one of those friends that just kind of refuses to accept the fact that things are not only falling apart, they’ve disintegrated and they really, really need to walk away? Well, then you might recognize the fact that Amy Winehouse appears to have gone from slightly delusional to just flat-out out of touch. The Grammy-winning singer has made up her mind that after much marital strife, drug issues, violence and goodness-only-knows what happened in their marriage, she won’t let her husband Blake Fielder-Civil divorce her. In what amount to what sounds like … Read More