Female Sex Addiction

Sex addiction is often assumed to be an exclusively male ailment, but women suffer it too—in fact, the London Times reports, 30 percent of all American patients are female. The condition may sound dubious, or even enviable to some, but the addiction element is real. “Comparative brain scans of the love-struck and cocaine-addicted,” the Times writes, “show almost identical areas of brain activity.” The article interviews several women, including Susan Cheever, who just published a memoir on her battle with sex addiction. “If there is a difference between sex and love addiction, I don't know what it is,” Cheever says. “Sometimes people say they just fall in love too frequently. Are they saying they don’t want to have sex with those people? Love addict sounds nicer for sure.”