Addiction To Sex Addiction

When most people think of an addict, what may come to mind is a homeless person on the side of street, dirt under their nails asking for change to buy their next handle of vodka, a chain smoker with yellow teeth and a raspy voice, or even the neighbors son who was arrested after breaking into their parents house to steal money for more heroin. The dictionary defines an addict as “a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance” (Addict). They then define addicted as “devoted or given up to a practice or habit or to something psychologically or physically habit forming” (Addicted). (Addict)(Addiction)When speaking to the general public, most define an addict as a person who knowingly harms their body to obtain a certain feeling, spends their money irresponsibly to obtain a high, or whose mind becomes so consumed by a substance or thing that they cannot function normally without it. Within these definitions, it can be argued that the everyday person

Again, sex is an important factor in the survival of the human race, but it has turned into an addiction when we risk our health to get it and when people let it consume their minds. According to Top Ten Reviews, every second 28,000 people are viewing a porn site and every 39 minutes a new porn video is made in the United States (Internet). Every weekend people will risk their health and even safety to satisfy a need by having one night stands with people they had just met, resulting in the startling statistic that 79 million Americans have HPV, the most common STI, with around 14 million new people becoming infected yearly (Genital). Even if it 's not the physical act, sex appeal is everywhere. It 's on a child 's favorite television show, it 's on the billboards that are passed on the freeway or on Carl’s Jr commercials with scantily clad women eating oversize cheeseburgers. For decades society has been marketed with sex because companies know there is a natural