Patrick Carnes believes that people become addicted to sex in the same way they become addicted to alcohol or drugs.
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Sexual addiction has been portrayed in the 2005 film I Am a Sex Addict, the 2008 film Choke, in the 2010 film Group Sex, and the 2011 film Shame.
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Patrick Carnes did much to popularise the concept of compulsive sexual behaviour as an addiction.
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Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew is a VH1 reality television show that documents people being treated for sexual addiction by Dr. Drew Pinsky and his staff at the Pasadena Recovery Center in Pasadena, California.
Ballingal Scotten has worked as a counsellor at the Youville Centre and St. Raphael Centre in Winnipeg (Winnipeg Free Press, 4 May 1998), and has specialized in treatment for sexual addiction (WFP, 29 September 2001).
A psychologist involved in sexual addiction treatment, Patrick Carnes, encourages self-defined sobriety in his writings, saying that a no-masturbation definition of sobriety is only appropriate for some sex addicts and that bottom lines can in fact be modified over time.