Robert Weiss, founding director of The Sexual Recovery Institute, wrote that 8 to 12 percent of people
he sees for sexual addiction counseling are women, with other research showing between 3 and 10 percent.
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saw films with stories about finding happiness even with cancer (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), the struggles of
addiction (I Smile Back), transgender women in Los Angeles (Tangerine), post-apocalyptic love triangles (Z
for Zachariah), a teenage girl's
sexual awakening (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), relationships between interviewer and interviewee (End of the Tour, True Story), washed up Olympians (The Bronze), two kids who go
for a joy ride (Cop Car), psychological studies (The Stanford Prison Experiment), lesbian lovers coming - of - age (The Summer of Sangaile), being a single parent (People, Places, Things), and geeky kids learning how to grow up (Dope).
Yet the transformative video artist would
see his work evolve into a more commercial fare; with successes in arthouse and successively mainstream film; beginning with the Bobby Sands drama'Hunger» 2008, followed by the artist's exploration of
sexual addiction n «Shame» 2011, and most recently McQueen's ’12 Years a Slave» 2013
for which he one an Oscar.
Use this brief screening measure to help you determine if you might need to
see a mental health professional
for diagnosis and treatment of a
sexual addiction.