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(Expressyoureself) -- "Californication" star David Duchovny made headlines for voluntarily entering rehab last week. But it wasn't for drugs or alcohol. It was for another dependency, one that affects millions of Americans but is seldom discussed: sex addiction.

While sex can be healthy for a relationship, some people develop an addiction to porn, affairs, and other behaviors.

Sex addiction, also called compulsive sexual behavior, is like a gambling compulsion or alcoholism: It's about devoting your free time to a behavior that you cannot stop, even if you damage relationships or prompt other negative consequences. That could mean extensively using pornography, having affairs, sleeping with prostitutes, and masturbating excessively, to the point where such behaviors get out of control.

If you think it's just about primal desire, think again. For many addicts, sex becomes a way to numb out painful feelings, kill time or stop feeling lonely, says Kelly McDaniel, licensed professional counselor in San Antonio, Texas, and author of "Ready to Heal: Women Facing Love, Sex and Relationship Addiction."

"Most people I talk to get to the point where they don't even like sex," said McDaniel, who has no connection to David Duchovny and did not speculate about his specific situation.

Who are sex addicts?

Sex addiction is estimated to affect 3 to 6 percent of adults in the United States, according to the Mayo Clinic, but the American Psychiatric Association has not classified the condition in its diagnostic handbook. Sexhelp.com, run by psychologist Patrick Carnes, provides an online test to help people determine if they have a problem.

The Internet, providing endless opportunities for porn-watching and cybersex, has fueled a surge in cases of sex addiction, experts say.

"We're seeing it with epidemic proportions now, particularly with regards to cybersex," said Mark Schwartz, psychologist and former director of the Masters and Johnson Institute in St. Louis, Missouri. "There isn't a week that goes by where I don't get two calls" about sex addiction.

Therapists have recently seen more women with the condition in connection with Internet porn, which has become a "gender-neutral" addiction, McDaniel said. Before, female sex addicts generally tended to have affairs or become sex workers, she said.

Experts acknowledge that people who have affairs or use pornography are not necessarily sex addicts. Such pastimes form an addiction when they generate negative consequences for a person's relationships, take over free time and become impossible to quit.

Where does it come from?

About 80 percent of sex addiction cases have sexual abuse or emotional trauma in their backgrounds, said Doug Weiss, therapist and executive director of the Heart to Heart Counseling Center. Schwartz also noted that huge numbers of people coming forward as sex addicts have been abused, assaulted or raped.

"When you have abuse in your background, you're less likely to trust people, [and] you're more likely to turn to something like sex addiction as a manifestation," Schwartz said.

Feelings of neglect as a child -- whether from divorced parents or parents who both worked and didn't spend a lot of time with their kids -- may also lead to sex addiction, Schwartz said.

Research into the neuroscience of sex addiction has not been conclusive, the Mayo Clinic said. Naturally occurring chemicals in the brain such as dopamine and serotonin do contribute to sexual functioning, but it's not clear how they are related to sex addiction. McDaniel said these two chemicals are lower in the brains of children who have suffered abuse, which may explain why some of them use their own bodies -- or, in other cases, food -- to increase dopamine and serotonin levels.

A lot of teenagers develop their sexuality with pornography, and then find that relational sex isn't as satisfying, Weiss said. Porn gives them a "very strong chemical hit," and alters ways of thinking about sex, somewhat like the classic "ring the bell, feed the dog" stimulus-response mechanism. Addicts thus learn to become sexually attached to objects, and have trouble getting the same kind of satisfaction from sex in a relationship, he said.

For many people, especially women, sex addiction occurs in tandem with another problem such as an eating disorder, drug or alcohol addiction, McDaniel said.

How does treatment work?

A good treatment center will review the reasons why the addiction has come about, along with the brain chemistry of it, McDaniel said. A premier rehabilitation facility would have a combination of individual and group therapy, 12-step support, and possibly psychiatric medications such as antidepressant medications if necessary.

The 12-step programs, which have components that parallel Alcoholics Anonymous, are the most widely used form of treatment, said Sam Alibrando, therapist and consultant in Pasadena, California. They involve having a sponsor and being available for others in the group at any time. Anecdotally, however, they work less well than AA because sex is harder to give up, said Alibrando, author of "Follow the Yellow Brick Road: How to Change for the Better When Life Gives You Its Worst."

"Treatment is long-term, and it's not easy," McDaniel said. "I really recommend that a woman or a man find someone who's trained and understands that sex addiction is a brain disease and does not further the shame that comes with this disease."

Unlike drugs or alcohol, the goal of sex addiction therapy is usually not abstinence, but rather learning to have sex in a relationship, experts say. Similarly, someone who recovers from an overeating disorder does not stop eating entirely but learns how to manage diet. Marriage counseling often becomes part of the treatment, Weiss says.

The goals of recovery vary for different people, says Alibrando. He's currently treating a couple in which the wife cannot tolerate her husband even looking at other women. On the other end of the spectrum, he has treated couples in which a woman will buy her boyfriend pornography.

"The spectrum is so wide in terms of where people draw the line," says Alibrando.

Some recovering addicts join support groups requiring that members only have sex with their partners, even prohibiting masturbation.

What's after recovery?

Weiss considers himself a former sex addict, having recognized his problem in his early 20s. Women weren't making him happy; he was using pornography and felt "in conflict" about it.

Now, he runs a resource Web site for recovery at sexaddict.com, along with three-day intensive workshops to jump-start recovery for sex addicts.

Weiss said he's proud of Duchovny for voluntarily seeking help, apparently without prodding from press reports or lawsuits.

"This kind of person who decides to get recovery for themselves without getting exposed" is "likely to get better," he said. "People who voluntarily get better have a much better chance of staying well."

Zachary David Alexander "Zac" Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American actor and singer. He began acting in the early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, the WB series Summerland, and the film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray. Speaking to Newsweek in June 2006, director Adam Shankman described Efron as "arguably the biggest teen star in America right now." In 2007, right before the release of High School Musical 2, Rolling Stone declared him the "poster boy for tweenyboppers" and featured him in their late August issue.

Personal life

Efron owns an apartment and has two dogs, Australian shepherds named Dreamer and Puppy, along with a Siamese cat named Simon. He was dating his High School Musical series co-star, Vanessa Anne Hudgens as of September 3, 2008.

On January 15, 2008, Efron was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for an emergency appendectomy.

Zac Efron was also on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2008, as number 92 with an estimated earning of $5.8 million from June of '07 to June of '08.

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So what do those whining bitches at the GOP have in return? Obama's stage sucked!

This from a group of people who can't even tell the difference between Walter Reed Hospital and a Junoir High School.

Here's their weak-ass ad. Watch once, puke, repeat.

And no, I almost never know how a paintings becomes THAT painting and why I give them the names I gave them... A suggestion, a mental phrase, floating among my synapses, a recent lecture, who knows?  Sometimes, the titles change but usually I stay with the first ones...

My Soul’s Desire is the Second Home of the Sensualist.  My Soul’s Desire is an effort to bring the Sensualist back to the masses.  Many already know me by my stories.  For those of you who don’t, I am starting back at the beginning…

Slipping Away II

You look up towards me, your lips glistening with my wetness.  Embers of fiery passion glimmer deep within your eyes.  You desire so much more.  I urge you upwards with my fingers on your shoulder.  I bask in the comfort of your body hovering over me with its heat and power.  You steady yourself with your elbows on each side of my shoulders “trapping” me within the confines of your flexed arms.  I can feel the crisp cotton of your shirt gently scuff against my peaked nipples.  The scent of my orgasm is fresh upon your lips.  I want to taste your tongue on mine.  I lift my hands to your face, cradling your chin in my palms.  Our lips meet softly, brushing tenderly with our breath mingling together as one.  I dip the tip of my tongue between your lips tasting your sweetness and my pleasure.  With a soft deep kiss I gently coax your tongue within my power.  A tender swirl and light suck is a mere inkling of what is yet to come. 

My hands slip down your neck to your chest while I continue bathing your tongue with tantalizing swirls and light sucking kisses.  Spanning my hands over your pecs I give a quick massaging squeeze and then slide my fingertips down to your waistband.  A few tugs and your shirt is undone.  My fingernails lightly scrape against your flesh as I pull your shirt back up your chest.  You rise, straddling my hips and finish pulling the shirt over your head.  It settles somewhere without care. 

I take my opportunity while your arms and hands are busy grappling with the shirt to take advantage.  My fingernails scratch lightly down both sides of your chest in waves until reaching their destination.  As you tower above me I watch the twitch of your jaw and your muscles flex as your hands fist in aroused anticipation.  Your jeans bulge and the heat from your arousal radiates.  My fingers spread across your abs and I dip my thumbs below your waistband, fanning out toward your sides.  I lean in to taste the saltiness of your damp skin and graze my nails gently across your back.  Your hands tangle in my hair and I look up into your eyes.  I want to give you what we both want. 

I pull away just enough to work the button of your jeans through its opening and slide the zipper carefully over your heated bulge.  My hands slide through the opening and over your hips freeing you.  A lift of your knees and you are completely free of any binds.  Your burning desire is at my breasts and it pleases me.  I hold my breasts together, caressing you between them and draw you up toward my lips.  Just a small lick, a taste of your first salty drips.  My fingers cannot resist the feel of your silky flesh within their grasp.  I take your heavily aroused member within my palms and feel you throb and shudder at my touch.  My fingers lace around you and my thumbs massage up and around as my lips take their first open kiss upon your engorged head.  I taste you on my tongue as I swirl around your silken head to the rim, teasing, sucking, tasting, licking.  My fingers caress and massage you in rhythm and I feel your vein pulse.  Your fingers tangle further in my hair; tugging gently with every inch I suck you deeper within my mouth.  Moisture is pooling within my depths and I am once again slick and deeply stirred.  With every twitch of your cock, my pussy swells with want and delight.  I feel you tense and your breathing hitch.  The uncertainty of pulling away or staying for the pleasure of release tears you.  I decide.  I take you in deeper, stroking you with my tongue, swirling and massaging with my fingers.  You warm my mouth and I swallow you into my soul, licking up all of your treasure. 

…to be continued.  I am far from being sated.

I am struck with the succinct depth of Arlo's work. He weaves our connectedness with the landscape and calls to that knowing within me. I too, have a fascination with hands in imagery--see my series "Touch" and the body in the landscape--"Hold Me"

Here is a link to his site.

He has a show going on in Boston from Sept 12 to November 15, 2008 at the Robert Klein Gallery. Here is an excerpt from their mailing:

Minkkinen does not merely place his body into the Finnish landscapes, but he becomes one with them. Since he first started photographing, Minkinnen has subjected his nude body to snow, ice, water and dangerous heights. His body is twisted and transformed in unbelievable ways to create a perfect union with the landscape. With photographs that seem to defy the imagination, it is astonishing that he does not use manipulations of any kind. This collection of timeless photographs will leave the viewer amazed at how exceptional the human body can be.

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