Addicted to brain scans.

• Author: Tsambassis, Nicholas A.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

Stanton Peele's "Addicted to Brain Scans" (March) didn't quite go far enough, at least for someone like me. I have always been skeptical of the concept of sex addiction, at least as defined by the veritable guru of the condition, Pat Carnes. As he and his disciples see it, anyone not in a conventional monogamous relationship, particularly if he is also a fan of pornography and other forms of adult entertainment such as strip clubs, is a sex addict.

This plays into the hands of the religious right and other nanny statists from both sides of...