David Duchovny, a personal favorite of mine since I’m sort of a dork and LOVED the X Files show (not so much a fan of this latest movie, but oh well), so when I read that he was the most recent star to enter rehab, and what it was for, I was a little bummed.  I thought, here is a guy who has had some moderate success in Hollywood and seems to have a solid relationship with his wife Tea Leoni, a beautiful and intelligent women who gives off a strong vibe as being very independent and also “cool”, and now he’s coming out and saying that he has a sex addiction problem?

Not that it’s changed my opinion of him professionally.  I think in fact that he’s a talented actor and he’s even a very funny guy from what I’ve seen of him in outtakes and also just in interviews, etc.  He just seemed authentic – the kind of guy you’d like to go get a few beers with and shoot the breeze with. 

The first reports were that he had not stepped out and had an affair or affairs on his wife, but this was in fact a treatment for sex addiction which involved addiction to porn, specifically online porn and chat rooms.  As if that wasn’t embarrassing enough, now there are reports surfacing, whether true or false who knows, that in fact it was because he had numerous affairs in the marriage and his wife gave him an ultimatum to either seek treatment for his addiction to sex or get the f out.

Interestingly enough, David stars in an HBO series that is just gaining some popularity called Californication, about a guy (him) who is struggling with sex addiction himself, although at this point he’s more like a male whore instead of a guy who is really struggling with something he can’t control.  Speculation at first by my significant other was that this whole thing may have been a publicity stunt for his new show because of the obvious parallels, but it became apparent that this was actually a real news story, and I thought that someone wouldn’t make up this embarrassment to his family for a publicity stunt if he had any sense of integrity (I hope!)

At any rate, sex addiction is supposedly a real phenomena.  I still wonder though if it’s not just a convenient label for people who can’t control themselves and find they have to go outside of relationships to get more sex. 

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