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Many in the gay community still equate sexual promiscuity with gay liberation in general. Irresponsible nonsense.

Within the gay community, sexual addiction (or sexual compulsivity) runs rampant. The reasons are obvious given the history of our ostracization by society. Nevertheless, we need to face it as the serious problem that it is.

Fortunately, in places like NYC, one the most active self-help groups within the gay community is Sexual Compulsives Anonymous (SCA). I’d say it is the most popular group at the NYC Gay Center. Why? Because sexual addiction warps and distorts the addict, like any other addiction, in order to feed itself. Many gay men, when given the chance and all the information, realize they need help freeing themselves from obsessive internet porn, chat rooms, bookstores, serial one night stands, etc.

Are you sexually compulsive? See SCA’s The Twenty Questions Test or The Fourteen Characteristics.

Unfortunately, most gay communities are completely ignorant of the nature of sexual addiction and pass it off as only afflicting others. Too bad. Sexual addiction likely robs the addict of healthy views of sexuality and intimacy. Often sex addicts are unable to maintain long-term relationships.

Gay people are not from Mars and so we are vulnerable to the same excesses as all others on this planet. Sexual addiction is the vice of many who otherwise lead sober lives. Yet given the chemical reactions exploding in the brain during sex, it is merely swapping one drug for another.

Sex is healthy and should be enjoyed. Sex can be fun and freeing. But like anything else, it has negative consequences when taken to extremes. When sex is rendered a meaningless transaction only about pleasure, it pretty much becomes another form of recreational drug use. And there begins the possible descent into unbalanced addictive compulsive sexual behavior which can lead to dangerous and self-destructive places.