Episode 61: 61 Sexual Addiction with Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo

Sexual addiction is more than just the acting out, yet we tend to focus almost exclusively on the external results of an internal wound (or wounds). Like many people who talk about their sexual addiction, such as Audrey Assad, a lot of this starts with family of origin issues. The man we interview, whom we respectfully call Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo, started attending Sex Addicts Anonymous when he was 19 years old. He was living a double life and hated it: giving a theology of the body talk in the evening, and then meeting strangers for sexual hookups in dangerous places. This is a powerful interview. “Before coming to Sex Addicts Anonymous, many of us never knew that our problem had a name. All we knew was that we couldn’t control our sexual behavior. For us, sex was a consuming way of life. Although the details of our stories were different, our problem was the same. We were addicted to sexual behaviors that we returned to over and over, despite the consequences.” — Sex Addicts Anonymous, p. 3 John Paul II Healing CenterTheology of the Body InstituteIs SAA right for you? Do you have a Sexual Addiction? <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57e4c771579fb35bcfcf59e2/1474611060340/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57e4c771579fb35bcfcf59e2" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57e4c771579fb35bcfcf59e2/1474611060340/?format=1000w" />