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Abstract: 

A 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different spas in the greater Atlanta, GA, area on March 16, 2021, and shot dead eight people, six of whom were Asian women. The following day, Cherokee County Sheriff’s officials announced what the suspect blamed as a possible motive for the killings: sex addiction. But there is no diagnosis of “sex addiction” in any diagnostic manual that psychologists consult when working with patients. The author is a researcher who specializes in behavioral addictions, specifically sexual addictions. In this article, he explains how religion interacts with sexual behaviors and feelings of addiction and how religion and sexual addiction are deeply intertwined. This article is published under a creative commons license from The Conversation. (The Conversation, Mar. 20, 2021, available at https://TheConversation.com/Sex-Addiction-Isnt-a-Justification-for-Killing-or-Really-an-Addiction-It-Reflects-a-Persons-Own-Moral-Misgivings-About-Sex-157543.)

Keywords: WHO International Classification of Diseases

Affiliations:  1: Bowling Green State University.