Episode 18:Challenging sex phobia in the therapy industry, including the idea of sex addiction
This week’s episode is an interview with a psychologist and author called Dr David Ley. His work centres a lot around the field of sexual disorder and compulsion, and in his book “The myth of sex addiction” he took a stand against the sex addiction therapy industry and their proponents. This hasn’t made him popular, but as someone who is sceptical themselves of this area of work with people I wanted to have him on the podcast and talk about what prompted this work and what we can do to help people with issues around sex without resorting to pathologising their behaviour.