Zane, the pioneering Black erotica author, self-published her first work 'The Sex Chronicles' before becoming a 'New York Times' bestselling.

In her latest interview, Grammy-nominated singer and Golden Globe-winning actress Andra Day said that playing Bille Holiday in Hulu's recently released biopic about the jazz icon helped her deal with the porn and sex addictions she faced in her personal life. 

Love and sex addicts sleep with people they shouldn’t sleep with. They sh*t where they eat. They cross the line. They don’t have boundaries. So they may sleep with people and make things really weird for all of you. Like if this friend sleeps with your best male buddy or your sibling.

All of it—her sponsor, the meetings, and the friends she makes in the meetings—helps with the loneliness. And loneliness is often the main reason people become sex and love addicts. But this is a healthy way to fill the loneliness, because these individuals know she has a problem, and don’t enable her.

Codependency is an effective mask for sex addiction. One carries the other. Some people don’t realize they’re sex addicts because they also have codependency issues, always jumping from one relationship to another. The issues can go hand in hand, but really, the codependent individual is just covering up her sex addiction within the shelter of a “committed relationship.”

Sex addicts cross lines a lot and have sex with people it’s inappropriate to have sex with, like their friend’s wives, their bosses, their third cousin removed. Everyone sleeps with one inappropriate person at some point, but sex addicts sleep with several.

If you’re in a loving, committed relationship then sometimes, when you’re having a bad day, there’s nothing better than a hair-pulling, dirty-talking, sweaty session in the sheets with your significant other to shake it off. Sex, as a stress-reliever, certainly has its merits. But you run into a problem when you use sex to “fix” […]

There's a fine line between normal sexting and being addicted,