PSYCH 134: Sexual Addiction

Clinical Deep Dives · Sep 26, 2026 · 44m

The central clinical question is not “How much sex is too much?” but “Has sexual behaviour become the person's primary way of regulating distress, reward and self-experience?”

Medlock Holmes enters an immense Neo-Victorian institution called The House of Driven Behaviour.

At first, nothing in the building looks inherently pathological.

There are rooms devoted to:

sexual fantasy

masturbation

romantic attachment

pornography

partnered sex

sexual exploration

All of these can occur within ordinary human sexuality.

But in one wing, the machinery behaves differently.

A person vows:

“I won’t do this…