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Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men
- Narrated by: Stan Jenson
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
A moment comes for every addict when the consequences are so great or the pain is so bad that the addict's life becomes out of control because of his or her behavior. Some are news-making moments, such as the public censure when a congressman, minister, general, or professional athlete is cited for unacceptable sexual behavior. For most people those moments are followed by resolves to "never do it again", but somehow after the promise is made, they often find themselves in the exact same location doing something they vowed never to do again. That is addiction.
And for some, this addiction is more difficult to diagnose than in others. Such is the case for gay men. For some gay men fully committed to open sexual choices and experiences, modifying their sexual behavior and restricting their sexual freedoms is like going back in time and surrendering to homophobic attitudes often found in conservative culture. It just doesn't feel right. After all, the urban gay male culture surrounding him fully supports his sexual exploits as long as the sex is safe. And since gay male sex addicts may not discuss their sexual behavior even with good friends, nobody challenges them on their late-night exploits in unsafe places, their arrest record or brushes with the law, or potential health risks because of their behavior.
The truth is gay male sex addicts are not compulsively sexual because of their sexual orientation, but rather as a consequence of their individual psychological issues and biological predisposition toward addiction. This is exactly the same set of risk factors presented by straight male sex addicts.
Unfortunately, for the gay (sex) addict, his increasingly destructive patterns of behavior take place against a cultural background of dramatically greater sexual and social freedoms than those enjoyed by his heterosexual peers.
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- meiwi
- 27-02-23
Good book overall
Book has a great content and practical advice but voice over really distracts from a content. Do not do voices, let someone else to read it.
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- Nadia
- 09-02-24
wierd voices
Very informative book, but I kept wondering if the narrator was having a laugh with the weird voices he'd make when speaking as a character! It made me laugh if nothing else...
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- D. A. Duarte
- 08-01-23
needs serious updating
even though I found this book extremely helpful on my path to recovery, I was often left cringing for the seriously out of date language used throughout. there also seems to be very little awareness of aromantic people or queer types of relationships where romance is not the norm.
overall, this book uses intimacy and romance as gold standards which can be really problematic at times.
the biggest problem for me was the performance of this audio book. the narrator puts on accents and cringy tones on a regular basis...very very poor! please get someone else to read this!
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