Sex Addiction

Neil Watkins is a sex addict and an acclaimed performer. His play – The Year of Magical Wanking – has been called beguiling and poetic, intense, funny, and astonishingly brave.

It's a thorny issue

“I am Neil Martin Watkins and I am a sex and love-addicted innocent.” That’s how I begin my autobiographical monologue about my sexual shame as a result of growing up in Catholic Ireland.

Of course, it was all just the norm then. An altar to Mary and Jesus on the window sill. A holy water font in the hall. Our mother anointed us every morning before school.

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  • St. Michael says:

    12:30am | 05/03/12

    Again, I don’t think I can give you a concrete answer to this—and nor should I, I’ve not studied theology, philosophy, or psychology for decades. What might be of relevance is that Rohr seems to observe that human consciousness can exist on a continuum: at one end, the purely instinctual,… Read more »

  • stephen says:

    07:47pm | 04/03/12

    I appreciate your response to my points. But there is only one convergence or conflation, (to take up my earlier point) that flumoxxes me : and that is to do with individual responsibility,  - with pride, personal endeavour, and self-knowledge - with the greater social force of a responsibility to… Read more »

 

I love hot chips. I can’t get enough. Sometimes I’m thinking about hot chips when I should be thinking about work. Sometimes I hide them so no one will know. I think I have a hot chip addiction.

Cartoon: Jos Valdman

Addictions are, apparently, the disorders du jour. And sex addiction is the latest hot item. Psychologists are warning that since Tiger Woods checked into a posh sex-addict clinic last year, the number of people coming clean with their addiction has surged.

So they’re turning up in their millions (seriously) to programs like Sex Addicts Anonymous. Which may sound like the most awesome pick-up joint you ever went to, but is in fact quite serious.

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  • Luke says:

    10:31am | 07/03/11

    Why are there more personality disorders than there are persons? Read more »

  • Alannah says:

    02:51pm | 06/03/11

    The only reason why Tiger called it SEX ADDICTION is he got cought. He had no intention in saying to his then wife “hey i’ve got a problem i’ve had sex with 33 other women”. If he didn’t get cought he’d be still at it today no addiction about that.… Read more »

 

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