ESPN.com reports: Former ESPN baseball analyst and New York Mets general manager Steve Phillips said Monday that he knew he had a sex-addiction problem last August, two months before he was fired after having an affair with an ESPN production assistant.
"What I want to do is take ownership," he told Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show. "I made some mistakes ... I'm fully responsible for what I did."
Phillips spoke publicly for the first time since leaving the same clinic in Hattiesburg, Miss., that golfer Tiger Woods reportedly attended. He called it a facility for people who are "broken" and "struggling to find answers." He said his focus is "moving forward, trying to save my family."
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Let's see: Rich, famous, attractive and constantly having women making themselves available to you ...
Yeah, I'd guess that given those same circumstances, 99 percent if not 100 percent of the straight men who read this article probably are "sex addicts," too.
In Rod I Agree. This "sex addiction" is 100% pure, unadulterated B.S. "I didn't cheat honey. I can't stop having sex. Just, you know, not with you. With younger girls. Who are really hot. I know every other addiction throws standards out the window, but this is SEX addiction. It's different. Because I could lose a lot of money in a divorce."
I like how it is these days, that when a guy gets caught cheating on their wife, they suddenly have an addiction to sex. I may not be a psychiatrist, but i'd say there's probably a difference in alcohol and drugs, and the serious addictions they create, and a guy who chooses to not keep it in his pants. Just the latest attempts for the rich and famous to try and justify their embarassments, and stay out of divorce courts, and in certain cases like Phillips, save their reputations in the employment world. But, an addiction? I sort of doubt it, but i'm sure the treatment centers making thousands of dollars off those rich and famous guys, have no trouble whatsoever, calling it an addiction.
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