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The site of Gold Spa, is viewed on March 17, 2021, one of the three Asian massage parlors that was hit by deadly shooting attacks in Northeast Atlanta, Georgia on March 16, 2021. - Six Asian women were among eight people shot and killed at spas around the US city of Atlanta, raising fears March 17, 2021 that it might be the most violent chapter yet in a wave of attacks on Asian-Americans. A white man is in custody on suspicion of staging all three attacks, police said as a Georgia state Democratic party leader suggested the attack matched "a pattern" of violence on Asian-Americans during the pandemic. (VIRGINIE KIPPELEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Violence isn't a sex addiction symptom

Nicole Karlis
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WHO recognizes sex addiction as disorder

Nicole Karlis
Harvey Weinstein (AP/Arthur Mola)

"Sex addiction": A way to blame women

Amanda Marcotte
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Christian right's porn crusade

Amanda Marcotte
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Is porn addiction real?

Carrie Weisman - Alternet

Carrie Borzillo - DAME

Christian "porn addicts" speak

Tracy Clark-Flory
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Feminist at the peep show

Erica Garza
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Tales of a female sex addict

Erica Garza

A sex addict's silver lining

Andrew O'Hehir
Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin (AP/Kathy Willens)

I forgave my cheating husband

Elle Grant
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My boyfriend, the sex addict

Laura Barcella
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Tracy Clark-Flory

Scott Alexander Hess - The Fix

Lisa Kirchner - The Fix
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I'm addicted to sexting

Cary Tennis
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