Reflections of a Sex Addict

This is a wild ride, this deep dive into sex addiction, and it’s not for everyone. The book is biographical, and follows the life of John Rittenhouse through an assorted tangle of sensual and erotic encounters, all in the pursuit of an answer to the question: is John a sex addict, or is he a virtuoso at seduction, simply doing what every man would like to do, if he could? The answer might just turn out to provoke a moral dilemma, rather than uncover a psychological challenge.

Multiple unique episodes illustrating different aspects of eroticism and sexuality are examined in this work, episodes intended to deliberately raise the question of sexual addiction. We follow John as a teen, stumbling and fumbling his way toward understanding his sexuality, and on into adulthood where he find folks showing hidden erotic sides or encounters aging porn stars struggling to find a measure of lasting self-worth. His many and varied sexual encounters demonstrate the point at which careful judgement is required to find the line beyond which addiction lies. Always dangling in the background, just within sight, is the question: Is it possible to straddle the line, to have your cake and eat it too? Ultimately, at the heart of these forays into eroticism, is a final question: can sex be an addiction, or is the behavior John exhibits only a measure of a powerful sex drive and a lifestyle rewarding promiscuity and successful seduction? From this, we can take away the following lesson: No two people are alike. Therefore, issues of promiscuity and addiction, male or female, ought to be assessed individually. As these vignettes demonstrate, there is no universal yardstick to accurately measure us all, or the devils that hound us.