Category: Personal essays

I was a ‘sex addict’ – now I’m healing from the damage my hypersexuality caused

I was a ‘sex addict’ – now I’m healing from the damage my hypersexuality caused

“Have you always been such a slut?” says my friend. “Yup,” I reply with a grin.

In my life, some people called me a sex addict and some – like my friend – have called me a slut. But years after this particular friend queried my supposed promiscuity, a therapist offered up a different descriptor: hypersexual.

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