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'Sex addiction' isn't a justification for killing, or really an addiction – it reflects a person's own moral misgivings about sex

  • Written by Joshua B. Grubbs, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University
imageFeeling 'addicted to sex' has more to do with one's values than frequency of behavior.Terraxplorer/E+ via Getty Images

A 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different spas in the greater Atlanta area on March 16 and shot dead eight people, six of whom were Asian women. The following day, Cherokee County sheriff’s officials...

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