medicalizing normal human behavior

...the treatment for sexual addiction is a form of pseudo-redemptive window dressing in which no one, especially the addict himself, really believes. But what choices does the wife have? One potential “cure” is chemical or surgical castration—no man volunteers, not to mention the wronged wife would be deprived of sex anyway, a sort of cutting off your nose to spite your face. The second choice is to view the addiction as a time-limited condition, accept the man for who he is, and wait until his desires extinguish. Let's stop pathologizing every human behavior, like male libido.

Well I'm glad someone said it. Sexual fidelity is a social construct, and thus infidelity is a social rather than medical problem. Anyone who I know that has resisted the invitation to extramarital sex, knows two things. The first is that every instinct is saying yes, yes, yes, and the second is that succumbing to temptation presents enormous professional and social complications.

What we are really talking about is poor impulse control, and it just so happens that this underlies drug and other addictions as well.

The irony is that poor impulse control is just another way of saying 'risk-taker', which happens to be something women like in men. Risk-takers lose big, but they also win big and do well in the reproductive Olympics.

Men are simple, women are complicated--they hate the beast, but love him as well.