Takeaway: The author describes the cycle of pleasure and shame that dictated her sex life - and led to her addiction. For years, Erica Garza was addicted to shame. Garza is quick to point out that a healthy appetite for sex and porn are, and never were, her problem. The issue, she says, is that from that first climax, the cycle of pleasure and shame became one she could not separate, and could not escape.

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By Forrest Hanson For Dailymail. It will be released on Tuesday, January 9. An author has written in great detail and with brutal honesty about her struggle with pornography addiction in a provocative memoir. Erica Garza, 35, charts in her book, titled 'Getting Off,' her relationship with pornography that began at the age of 12 and lasted into her early 30s. The addiction was broken in part due to the love of her now-husband, Willow Neilson, with whom Garza has a child.
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She finally brought herself to orgasm twice after being "too tired" to climax with her visitor. The particular scene featured a teenage cheerleader having sex with her stepfather while her mother showered upstairs. It was tame compared to Garza's favourite film, which showed a gangbang at a factory in which two women were ritually humiliated. Indeed, Getting Off is the title of Garza's revealing new memoir, is released this week in the US, which chronicles the two-decades-long addiction to sex and porn that began in her teens. In it, she describes how she went from a self-conscious Catholic schoolgirl to a promiscuous adult hooked on risky intercourse and cellphone smut - an addiction widely regarded as more of a man's "problem" than a woman's. Her porn habit started when she was struggling to fit in at school in Los Angeles.
Is sex addiction real? I was never particularly convinced, until one afternoon spent in a dark theater in Si Racha, Thailand, changed my mind. They relapse they hole up and order hookers ; then they find strength anew and start counting days again. My dates for the flick were other clients: a whole row of junkies, alcoholics and even one video game addict from Australia.