MEN'S SEXUALITY GROUP THERAPY

Downtown Royal Oak 
Men's Sexuality Group is Mondays 5:30 to 7:30pm weekly

This therapy group is designed to help men increase awareness of how their sexuality developed-and how best to integrate it with a healthy, fulfilling life. It will help men resolve inappropriate sexual behaviors that are interfering in their lives.

The issues we examine and help solve include:

• Examining the negative effects of unresolved

• family-of-origin issues in childhood, which

• currently are interfering in one's adult life.

• Addictions (both chemical and behavioral)

• Past and present abuse (sexual, physical, verbal, emotional) and other traumas that make men ashamed of their sexuality.

• Misconceptions about sexual behavior and bad role models (for example, Hugh Hefner's "Playboy Philosophy") that can damage or even ruin your intimate relationships.

You are appropriate for this group, if:

• Behave in sexually compulsive ways and have unsuccessfully tried to stop.

• Have ever suffered overt or covert sexual abuse in childhood and adulthood (such as rape and/or inappropriate sexual behaviors and/or harassment from others).

• Feel driven to seek out new sexual partners.

• Are recovering from any other addictions (such as alcohol, drugs, or gambling).

• Experience sadness and anxiety about Sexually Transmitted Diseases, (STD's)

• infidelity, bisexuality, or any other sexual issue.

• Want to increase your sexual confidence and  self-esteem, and integrate your sex life into your life as a whole.

In group, there is talking, crying, laughing, and learning to become not just comfortable with men's sexuality, but proud of it. To do so, we must identify-and modify-any behaviors or attitudes that steer men away from joyous, loving relationships which are also sexually gratifying. 

Sexual Addiction/compulsion are behaviors that are rarely about sex, but rather about early childhood trauma. Often it is bases in childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse or neglect. The individual is usually terrified of adult intimacy and uses the sexual acting out (SAO) behaviors as a way to avoid it unconsciously. Therapists often misdiagnose this disorder because of the stigma attached to sexual behaviors.

Viewing the sexual behaviors as windows to the client's post trauma can be very helpful in successfully treating the individual. This requires the therapist and client to be comfortable with talking about and listening to the SAO behaviors without judgment.

Sexual addiction is the persistent and escalating patters of SAO behaviors despite increasing negative consequences to the self and others. Addiction to sexual activities can be just as destructive as addiction to chemicals. Sex Addicts jeopardize their marriages, partnerships and family relationships, allow job performance to deteriorate and endanger themselves and their partners through sexual exposures. Without appropriate treatment, sex addicts cannot control their compulsions despite the negative consequences they experience.

I invite you to join us—and be surprised at how other men in all walks of life are grappling with the same challenges!

If you decide to join, a six-month commitment is required. You and I would need to meet for an initial evaluation to establish if you are right for the group and if the group is right for you.

THE G-SEXUAL ADDICTION SCREENING TEST
(GAY & BI-SEXUAL ADDICTION SCREENING TEST)

THE SEXUAL ADDICTION SCREENING TEST
(HETEROSEXUAL SEXUAL ADDICTION SCREENING TEST)

For more information, time
and location please contact:
Joe Kort, MA, MSW, ACSW
Phone: 1-248-399-7317