Hardly a week goes by without the media reporting stories of the messes people have made of their lives and the damage they’ve inflicted on others because they couldn’t control their sexual urges.

Research has shown that sexual crimes such as rape and incest are often committed by very ‘normal’ people. Why is it that otherwise normal men and women let their sex urge get away from them? Why do they let their sexual desires destroy their families, career and even their self-respect.

Dr. Patrick Cairns, author of “Our of the Shadows”, describes it in this way:

What we’re talking about is a loss of control and a willingness to risk any kind of consequence for a pleasure that gets you so hooked you can’t stop.

More and more, people in Australia are seeking treatment for sex addiction.
Most of us when going through times of stress and alienation long for someone to get close to. In the midst of stress, fantasies may occur that are difficult to resist. But it is short term fulfilment and it leaves us with the “morning-after” let down.

Happiness and fulfilment come from finding meaning and purpose to our existence. This is helped by finding people to share in the living out of that purpose. Jesus said “What profits a main who gains the whole world and yet forfeits his very soul”.

Stephen Semenchuk