Taken to the extreme, these values can easily lead to extreme isolation, objectification of sex partners, an inability to express feelings, and a strong sense of entitlement at the expense of others-all fertile breeding ground for addictive behaviors.Ĭodependency has become an overused term it tends to brand all helping impulses as pathological. We live in a culture that prizes competition and autonomy, particularly for men: getting ahead, going for the gold, becoming an individual, gaining mastery of feelings, making sexual notches on one’s belt. This may be seen as a logical extension of the way that men in our culture are raised to view women and sex.Īs the dozens of pop psychology books on male-female relationships can attest, there is no end to the lament that men in our culture have difficulty with bonding and intimacy issues. This leads male sex addicts to engage primarily in such activities as voyeuristic sex, buying prostitutes, having anonymous sex, and engaging in exploitative sex. They seem to prefer sexual behavior involving relatively little emotional involvement. Patrick Carnes discovered that, in general, male sex addicts tend to objectify their partners.
Using some of his early research discussed in his book Don’t Call It Love, Dr. Yet it was not until the late 1980s that significant findings regarding very powerful gender differences in the development of alcoholism surfaced in research studies for other diseases, such as heart disease or AIDS.
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