Re: Avoiding sex, yet addicted to sex?

[Rick Green – Founder of TotallyADD]

We recently interviewed Gina Pera, author of Is Is You, Me, or Adult A.D.D. and she talked about how sex can either be an addiction–easy to do, feels good–or something that is avoided because it’s ‘a lot of work’. Foreplay is kind of like small talk. And I get bored with small talk, I can tell you. Ha!

What struck me as she talked about it was that it again comes down to an issue of being able to regulate ‘attention’ and succumbing to novelty seeking, and waking up the body/mind. In the past I’ve said this is ‘adrenaline’ addiction, but as Dr. John Ratey (Co-author of Driven to Distraction among many other things) told us when we interviewed him a while back, it’s more than simply adrenaline. It’s the whole limbic system waking up, emotional, etc..

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