"Unfortunately, 12-step programs for “sex addicts” often fail to appreciate and address the deeper character pathology inherent in the behavior of our modern-day Casanovas."
BobH:
Applying the so-called 12-step addiction program to this modern term "sex addiction" would probably fail to address the whatever one wants to call it in true casanovas of any age, past, present and future. When I first heard that term---eg "sex addiction" and "sex addiction therapy" and now "12 step sex addiction therapy", I must say the sheer incongruity of it all really made me laugh.
I know we're getting older but it seems like the world these days wraps most any issue, big or small, in way too much complexity or perhaps even something of the counterpoint to that---eg cheap-sell, fast-profit, quick-fix panaceas. That might even be a natural evolution as things just get faster for all of us with so much faster communication, better technology, more and more instant gratification etc.
On that note of making something too complicated, I was playing once in a pretty important tournament around here with a really great player from HVGC who was a real breath of fresh-air always because he was so honest and uncomplicated about the way he approached any kind of problem or obstacle; his or others. I was going on and on in the beginning of the round about whether I should get married or not and after a few holes of that he said: "Look, do you love her or don't you?" I said: "Yes I love her." And he said: "That's all you need to know, end of discussion."