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The story of the alleged Atlanta shooter highlights the two most common ways Americans think about compulsive behaviors – considering them the results of temptation and treating them as diseases.
‘Sex addiction’ isn’t a diagnosable disorder, but the turmoil religious men feel over the disconnect between their sexual values and behavior can lead to real psychological distress.
The #Metoo campaign shows that we should not think of Harvey Weinstein as an isolated case, or just one bad apple. There are thousands more like him. Globally, sexual harassment has become normalised.
Drugs, coffee, television – they can all be described as ‘addictive’. But when do they become a problem?
Is sex addiction real? That is, is it really a disorder, involving diminished control over behaviour? Questions such as these are difficult to answer because it’s always difficult to distinguish diminished…
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz