{"id":57163,"date":"2014-09-03T17:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57163"},"modified":"2014-09-03T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T02:12:17","slug":"talking-about-your-addictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57163","title":{"rendered":"Talking About Your Addictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e4HYFed0LxE&#038;list=PLCoNWFgxjiSUQYu5Ks9S6GXrS45R4Q3Nj\">A man says 25 minutes in<\/a>: &#8220;My name is Matt and I&#8217;m a sexaholic. My disease manifests itself in fantasy, pornography, lust in all forms, objectifying, rubbernecking women, crossing boundaries, getting lust hits from calling massage therapists without planning to go to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twenty two minutes in, Elliott says: &#8220;My obsessions are S-M, voyeurism, exhibitionism. Three years ago, when I entered the program, I could not talk about those things. 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