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Originally Posted by link
It reads like you are hinting that sex and food addictions are perhaps better described as disorders or dependences rather than as addictions. If so, while your definition of addiction is correct, it’s used too narrowly.
Addiction is commonly used in psychological contexts to describe compulsion, excessive psychological dependence, obsession, and so on...
At least that’s what I remember reading someplace…
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I agree that it's used that way but I think it is misused. I'm not even sure I'd call excessive eating or sex disorders or dependencies. They are excesses of natural goods. Alcoholism and drug dependencies are excesses of unnatural goods.
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