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Sex Addiction and Love Addiction

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Many people have what is called love addiction and/or sex addiction and are unable to achieve real intimacy. Addictions of any kind are just emotion blocks or people suffering from deep emotional pain.

Tantra and sexual healing is the perfect therapy to help people heal any emotional wounds.  When someone has old emotional wounds or blocks they are unable to achieve real intimacy and look outside of themselves and their relationships with others and therefore use love or sex addiction to avoid it. By clearing emotional blocks and healing on a soul level the need for sex and love addiction starts to diminish and the person starts to “feel” real love. They can then start to heal those old emotional wounds.

Characteristics of Sex & Love Addiction

May include some or all of the following:

  1. Having few healthy boundaries, we become sexually involved with and/or emotionally attached to people without knowing them.

  2. Fearing abandonment and loneliness, we stay in and return to painful, destructive relationships, concealing our dependency needs from ourselves and others, growing more isolated and alienated from friends and loved ones, ourselves, and God.

  3. Fearing emotional and/or sexual deprivation, we compulsively pursue and involve ourselves in one relationship after another, sometimes having more than one sexual or emotional liaison at a time.

  4. We confuse love with neediness, physical and sexual attraction, pity and/or the need to rescue or be rescued.

  5. We feel empty and incomplete when we are alone. Even though we have a fear of intimacy or a fear of commitment, we continually search for relationships and sexual contacts.

  6. We sexualize stress, guilt, loneliness, anger, shame, fear and envy. We use sex or emotional dependence as substitutes for nurturing, care, and support.

  7. We use sex and emotional involvement to manipulate and control others.

  8. We become immobilized or seriously distracted by romantic or sexual obsessions or  sexual fantasies.

  9. We avoid responsibility for ourselves by attaching ourselves to people who are emotionally unavailable.

  10. We stay enslaved to emotional dependency, romantic intrigue, or compulsive sexual activities.

  11. To avoid feeling vulnerable, we may retreat from all intimate involvement, mistaking sexual and emotional anorexia for recovery.

  12. We assign magical qualities to others. We idealize and pursue them, then blame them for not fulfilling our fantasies and expectations.
©2003 The Augustine Fellowship, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc.

Other signs of sex addiction may include but are not limited to:

  • Having extra-marital affairs

  • Telling your partner(s) or affairs you are monogamous when you have more than one partner

  • Having same sex relationship but denying that you are gay or admitting your bisexuality to your partner

  • Using phone sex or the internet

  • Having bi-sexual affairs
  • Joining sex members sites and storing the movies on your pc so you can have your fix at will

  • Engaging in kinky fetishes or bdsm play to avoid intimacy

  • Using phone chat or text chat services or making indecent phone calls

  • Engage in voyeurism and swinging

  • Any unusual or bizzare sexual practices

  • Engaging in NON sexual activities such as BDSM but being allowed to orgasm at the end but not telling your partner you have been cheating

  • Taking part in exhibitionist activities such as pornography, domination films and especially doing it behind your partner's back

  • Compulsive or excessive use of pornography especially if it's used as a way of avoiding intimacy

  • Become addicted to swinging or prostitutes

  • Visiting sex workers or massage parlours to avoid intimate relationships or spending money on sexually explicit material

  • Sexual anorexia whereby you actually do not have sex at all for long periods of time 

 

You can find more information here on Love and Sex addiction