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Spotlight: Interview with a woman sex addict

The following is an interview with a woman who self-identified as being in recovery from a  sex addiction .  She is in her 40's, professional, and married with children.  She asked to remain anonymous for the sake of her privacy; she used the pseudonym "Nora."  I asked her about her  addiction  and about being a woman and  sex  addict.  I began by asking her to describe her sexual addiction: Dr. S:  How would you describe your sex addiction? Nora:  At this point in my recovery, many previous problematic behaviors have dropped away, leaving only the core of my addiction - which started in early  childhood  -  masturbation  with disturbing fantasy.  So in describing my sex addiction, I would say that I have been able to let go of all my problem behaviors without great difficulty but struggled to achieve abstinence with masturbation with those  fantasies .  I am currently sober and have been for some time, one day at a time.   My addiction started in early childhood, an

What this woman found after interviewing 100 rapists

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THIS woman interviewed 100 convicted rapists, one of which sexually abused a five-year-old girl. Here’s what she learnt. Warning: Graphic. ANYONE interviewing 100 convicted rapists would no doubt have a few things to say. But what Madhumita Pandey, an Indian PhD student, has to say might surprise you. When Pandey was just 22 she visited Tihar Jail in the Indian city of New Delhi to work on her thesis for Anglia Ruskin University, a school in the UK. With over 10,000 inmates, it is the largest prison system in South Asia. It was after the highly publicised and brutal gang rape of a woman referred to as Nirbhaya (meaning “the fearless one”) in 2012 when Pandey was inspired to better understand the attitudes of men that commit rape. In an interview with  The Washington Post ,  Pandey discussed what she’s learnt so far and how some of the men even had her feeling sorry for them. “After you speak to [the rapists], it shocks you — these men have the power to mak

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