I think that you bring up an interesting point when you discussed past trauma impacting someone’s current behavior whether in relation to sex addiction or drug addiction. In the article Is Sex Addiction a Real Disorder? the author speaks to the fact that sexual addiction may have connections to other disorders or events that have an effect on how the brain, such as impulse control. You may be right that a sex addict, like a drug addict, uses it as an escape from whatever is bothering them in their personal life. Unlike drug addiction, however, it has not yet gotten the support of the research to develop ways to connect the cause with the effect if that is the case. I think this is because that sex is a taboo topic and isn’t as visible as drug