Is your pursuit of sex proving to be a problem for you?

Is the time you spend on the internet or at venues, looking at porn or generally finding sexual encounters making you feel bad about yourself?

It’s sometimes hard to think about what’s healthy for us – and what behaviours might be ‘grinding’ us down.

A free, male-only forum happening at ACON’s headquarters in central Sydney next week aims to provide an insight into the personal challenges which many people face in managing their sex lives as well as an opportunity to look at our own sexual choices.

Gay culture has always celebrated an exploration of sexual boundaries, so to reflect on these can seem heretical as well potentially reinforcing stereotypes of gay permissiveness – yet to avoid this subject removes the possibility of choices, for those who find themselves trapped in their own pursuit of pleasure, says the event’s facilitator Kim Gotlieb.

There will be a range of options and strategies available including, books (eg. Patrick Carne and Robert Weiss’s Cruise Control ), therapy, meditation, personal growth and 12-step meetings – SAA (Sex Addicts Anon), SLAA (Sex & Love Addicts Anon) and soon to be formed SCA (Sexual Compulsives Anon).

What Makes Sex Compulsive?
6.30 – 8.00pm, Wednesday 15 February, 2012
ACON 414 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills (close to Central Station)