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what's the difference between a sex addict and a man with a normal sex drive?   if we compare sex addiction (about which we don"t know) and drug addiction (about which we think we know) maybe we can figure this out.  people talk about gateway drugs when they talk about the beginning of drug addiction.  in sexual addiction the gateway would be first realization of one"s sexual nature.  cigarettes have been labeled a gateway because they are a deliverysystem that one has to "learn" to use, then it can be used for other substances.  we think of an addict as someone who "has to have" something in other words he is defined by his disease.  a normal man feels this way due to his sex drive about sexual release.  therefore there is the confusion about sex addiction, since the "has to have it" that defines a substance addiction is present, but relating to a natural need.  when does this need become an addiction?  when it becomes a "problem".  that has long been the defining standard for alcoholism and emotional/mental abnormalities.  that means everyone's wife has labeled him a sex addict at one time or another.