Posted by dj on March 11, 2001, at 23:56:19
In reply to Sex addication and SSRI's, posted by Shooty on March 11, 2001, at 23:09:19
Can't say I relate to your addiction, however there was a very good article on S.A. and SSRI's in the NY Times magazine a while back. You can order the article from them at their website, if you so desire, or look up the mag. in your local libary. Here's a bit on it:
November 19, 2000, Sunday
How Do You Cure A Sex Addict?
By Lauren Slater
Source: The New York Times
Section: Magazine Desk
5717 wordsAbstract
Lauren Slater reports on sex addiction, and its treatment; comments on work of Dr Martin Kafka, psychiatrist who treats and studies paraphiliacs at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass; comments on inverse relationships between eating disorders and sexual impulse disorders; Kafka's treatment of sexual-impulse disorders chemically discussed; photos (L)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lead Paragraph
Once, sex addicts were treated with pillories and guillotines and gleaming clamps, but what used to be a moral problem is now a medical one, and this is no surprise. Our understanding of sexual compulsion has followed the same trajectory as our under...
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