There have been notable sex addicts in recent years such as Michael Douglas , David Duchovny, Eric Benet, Billy Bob Thornton, Carlie Sheen, Tom Sizemore, Bill Murray and Kayne West.

It has come to the spotlight in the 1990s with notable stars publicly admitting to having this addiction.

It’s a comulsive disorder just like gambling or being an alchoholic.

Picture to left: Catherine Zeta and Michael Douglas getting married, they have an agreement in their wedding contract, every time she catches him sleeping with another woman, he has to pay her 5 million dollars, sweet!

The symptons for men include heavy use of pornography, masturbating excessively, having affairs, paying for sex on a regular basis.

A lot of people with this addiction develop a discust for sex.

It is estimated on average 4.5 per ent of the American population are sex addicts, this is according to the Mayo Clinic.

The biggest contibributer to sex addiction in the modern age is internet porn.

This used to be a gender neutral addiction but now more women are turning to this,women tended to have affiars or become sex workers before.

The way to look upon sex addiction is that its a brain disease, its harder to give up sex than lets say alcohol. There are ways to adapt the mind gradually, I have listed 6 tips to help sex addicts.

• Marriage counselling is one area that can help.
• Prohibiting Masturbation, and only having sex with partner is one such treatment.
• Mindset of understanding happiness versus instant satisfaction, the mind is programmed to go after satisfaction at the expense of happiness , understanding how the mind works helps.
• Setting up porn filter on your computer, or girlfriend and boy friend monitoring your activites.
• Sex clinic is an expensive method but the previous 4 method is strongly used can help.
• Dealing with past trauma, sex addiction is linked to past sexual trauma.

Picture above: David Duchovney recoverd sex addict