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ELI5: When drug addicts and alcoholics go to rehab, the goal is to quit that substance forever. But, for sex addicts, do they have to quit sex forever?

I feel like alcoholics and drug addicts have to completely wipe their addiction out of their lives. An ex-alcoholic mostly can't have a casual drink and an ex-heroin addict can't have a leisure-shoot without spiraling back into addiction. For sex addicts however, id imagine the rehabilitation would be different? Sex is natural and we need it in order to reproduce, so is it mandatory to quit sex for good in order to treat/cure the addiction? Or can that person get to the point where they can have sex at a healthy rate?
gpt
Think of it like this. Alcoholics don't stop drinking all fluids, just ones with alcohol in them. Drug addicts don't stop taking their Coumadin or insulin, just the drugs that they have a problem with. Sex addicts have to avoid the sexual activity that negatively affects their life.