Key points

Sexual diversity is not an addiction.

Secret-keeping is not an addiction.

While a popular term, "sex addiction" frequently mislabels the individual's experience.

In my sex therapy practice, I see a respectable number of couples in heterosexual relationships where the presenting issue is that the male partner has been engaging in sexual behavior with other men and has kept this secret from his girlfriend or wife…until it was no longer secret. Needless to say, by the time these couples come to see me, their relationship is in deep crisis. I would like to address a few of the common issues that these couples face.

As is so often the case with the general public, some of these couples do not know how to discern those mental health providers who are skilled in this work vs. thos

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