What Is Sex Addiction?

What is sex addiction ?

by Mike Genung



3. Sex addiction is a false coping mechanism. The struggler with lust uses sexual fantasy to cope with the demands of real life; when situations don't go his way he turns to sex for comfort and escape. Lust provides neither comfort or escape, and it makes life worse by piling on more shame, misery and emptiness.

4. Sex addiction is false love. Deep in his heart the struggler with sex addiction believes he can't be loved as he is, so he turns to lust for love, comfort and approval.

5. Sex addiction is a sick substitute for God's love. From birth we are all born with the hunger for God; we crave His love, grace, acceptance, joy and peace. The struggler with sex addiction doesn't believe the Living God accepts him so he wears a mask to hide who he is. He may know the theology of grace, but the struggler with sex addiction has never accepted the gift of God's grace in his heart. His actions are proof of this, for what we do reveals what we believe.

6. Sex addiction is spiritual, emotional and psychological poison. It hollows out a man's soul and turns him into a ragged, desperate fool. It destroys men, women and children; marriages and families. Lust rots churches from the inside out, and as we know from history it can destroy a nation.


A Christian sex addict is someone who tries to have the false comfort of lust and God's love. Their relationship with the Lord is lukewarm at best.

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