Sex Addiction?
Hi everyone. I have been clean since september 20th, 2011. I find that now that I've quit heroin, my sex drive is enormous, insatiable almost. When I'm not focusing on school, my mind goes straight to sex. I don't think this is normal. While every guy thinks about it quite a bit, I've been thinking about it just as much as I used to think about heroin.
Last week alone I slept with three different people, two on the same day, and probably would have done a lot more than that if there were more better looking guys in my area. I feel ashamed about it but as long as I'm safe with it I'm not sure if it's something I should be concerned about. This is definitely no where near as serious as shooting up heroin, that's for certain. It's not having a negative impact on my life. If I recall, one of the fundamental aspects of addiction is that it has a negative effect on a person's life, and this hasn't harmed me at all.
Until I quit using, I always thought the term sex addict was ludicrous.
Is this a problem? Am I a "sex addict"?