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Inside the summer camp for celebrity sex addicts
https://nypost.com ^ | 11/18/2017 | Michael Kaplan

Posted on 11/18/2017 12:29:48 PM PST by heterosupremacist

Equine therapy — which Anthony Weiner participated in at a Meadows-style facility called Recovery Ranch in Nunnelly, Tenn. — encourages sex addicts, many of whom may be emotionally calloused from their desires to deceive loved ones, to rediscover how it feels to take care of another living being.

“You go into a big arena and there are horses,” said the source. “Ten of us spent 20 or 30 minutes walking around and interacting with the horses. We got a sense of their personalities and talked about it when we got back. You talked about how the horses responded to you and then tied it back to your life, to how you interact with people at work and with family members.”

“Celebrities do not cruise the Internet, searching for where to go for rehab,” Schrank said. “They get advice from their people. The Meadows is respected, in part, because it has groundbreaking doctors like Patrick Carnes [the founder of Gentle Path who is said to have coined the term ‘sex addict’] and markets to individual therapists in high-income Zip codes. I wouldn’t be surprised if they market to agents and managers as well. This is a business, just like booking conventions into hotels. They bring you out to see the facility and to meet the clinical staff. Plus, they do a good job and there is a limited number of places that treat sex addiction.”

Still, some experts say that celebrity offenders don’t always show up to rehab for the sincerest of reasons. “A lot of these people go in because it’s something for their publicists to say [as public retribution],” said Schrank. “However, they can actually gain insight from the clinical process if they are open to it.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: addiction; hollywood; rehab; yeahthatmightworklol
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To: digger48

That’s what would worry me, too!


21 posted on 11/18/2017 1:40:05 PM PST by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: heterosupremacist

Coined the phrase “sex addict”. What a brilliant man!


22 posted on 11/18/2017 2:19:14 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: heterosupremacist

I suggest have them look at porn with an old fashioned telephone hooked to their genitalia.


23 posted on 11/18/2017 2:20:48 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: heterosupremacist

Carlos Danger now has a horse?


24 posted on 11/18/2017 4:03:06 PM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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