'''Escape From Intimacy''' is a book by [[Anne Wilson Schaef]]
'''Escape From Intimacy''' is a book by [[Anne Wilson Schaef]]
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about [[sexual obsession]], which she equates with [[sexual addiction]] because:
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about [[sexual obsession]]. In the book Schaef writes
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#Addiction is a more accurate definition of sexual behaviors than are the purely psychological definitions.
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#The addiction model offers us the possibility of understanding a range of sexual behaviors that have been subtly integrated into the society as normal yet not clearly discussed and understood
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#This approach offers us the opportunity of understanding the societal components of sexual addiction and the "commonness" of sexual addiction
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#It offers hope and the possibility of recovery.
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#This perspective allows us the possibility of understanding that sexual addicts are human beings who are hurting, who have a progressive, fatal disease that wreak havoc an others and often does.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader?ie=UTF8&p=S00K&asin=0062548735 Amazon online reader] </ref>