A man who says he recovered from sex addiction says he prayed for Tiger Woods and his wife when the scandal broke. STORY HIGHLIGHTS * Sex obsession likened to a meth addict looking for next drug hit * 3 to 5 percent of Americans could have an addiction to sex, says group * Psychiatry doesn't have official diagnosis of sexual addiction RELATED TOPICS * Sexual and Reproductive Health * Tiger Woods * Mental Health Treatments * Mental Health (CNN) -- When Jack Rogers first heard media reports of Tiger Woods' multiple extramarital affairs, the first thing he did was say a little prayer for Woods and his wife. The second thing he did was tally up the number of women who claimed to have had sex with the famous golfer. "I said to myself, 'My God, that's some body count,' " Rogers remembers. Jack Rogers -- that's not his real name -- knows a little something about body count because he has one of his own: In the first 20 years of his marriage, he says, he slept with some 50 women. While some view Woods as just an unfaithful louse who was looking for a good time, Rogers sees him as a sex addict. What's the difference? Rogers, who works in the high-tech industry in Washington and has two children, says his whole life was geared around how he would have his next orgasm, in the same way a methamphetamine addict is constantly trying to find his next drug hit. Between women and pornography, "I was having three, four, five orgasms a day," he says. "As soon as I was done with one I was thinking about how I was going to get the next one. Sex was controlling my life, and I was miserable." Confessions of a sex addict Now 49, Rogers says his addiction began at age 16. "I would have sex for hours and hours at a time, and then go look at pornography," he remembers. "Sex was my all-consuming endpoint." While some young men might brag about their sexual conquests, Rogers was the opposite. He kept his sex life a secret, seeking out girls who didn't attend his high school. He says no one suspected. "I was elected all-school president," he says. "I was well thought of. I earned a full scholarship to the University of Washington. If you'd met me, you'd think, 'Wow, I want to give that kid a scholarship.' " He continued to be obsessed with sex in college. "The day Mount Saint Helens blew up, everyone was talking about it. But I didn't even know it happened because I was having sex all that day," he remembers. He was never faithful to a girlfriend, and although he married at age 25, he was never at any point faithful to his wife. "I was having affairs while we were engaged," he says. His quest for sex started at 4 in the morning, when he would wake up to get in touch with the women he was seeing on the East Coast. The rest of the day was spent mapping out his sexual activities. Some of the women he had sex with were colleagues. Others were prostitutes. Some were women he met by chance. "I could meet a woman on the elevator and be having … [Read more...]
