03 May Woman Addicted To Sex Candidly Reveals Just How Damaging Her Obsession Became

Sex is an important part of pretty much everyone’s lives and often when relationships break down it’s at least partially due to a lack of satisfaction in the bedroom.

And the health benefits that derive from a fulfilling sex life are plenty: it lessens your risk of developing cardiovascular disease, it allows you to sleep better and it has a noticeable mood-boosting effect.

However, in spite of all the pleasure and health benefits sex provides, it turns out you can get too much of a good thing.

Thirty-five-year-old Erica Garza from Los Angeles used to have a serious addiction to porn, and risked her safety by meeting up with men to perform what she now refers to as “degrading” sexual acts.

Watch Erica Garza talk about her troubled past with sex addiction

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She states that initially, these potentially dangerous encounters helped to take her mind off the “more difficult emotions”.

In a very candid and revealing interview with the Daily Mail, Garza spoke about what life is like as a sex addict in an attempt to spread awareness for the fact that women can also be affected by sex addiction. In fact, one-third of all sex addicts are women.

“Sometime in my late twenties I started noticing a pattern with my relationships,” she recalled. “I didn’t invest as much energy or care into platonic relationships and I often sabotaged romantic relationships when I felt myself caring too much.”

“I liked to keep things loose and casual, but felt lonely all of the time. I was also bingeing on porn as a coping mechanism when difficult emotions came up, and I didn’t know how to stop.”

“Sex addiction manifests differently in every addict, but for me, it meant using sex as an escape route and feeling a deep sense of shame.”

Shockingly, Garza’s addiction began at the age of twelve following a diagnosis with scoliosis which prompted bullies to relentlessly taunt her.

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