Topic: Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men

Gay men live in a world of deeply conflicted sexual messages: liberated, responsible, experimental, safe, cutting edge, traditional, dominant, submissive, sex-positive and celibate. Given all that, it's no wonder that one of the most complicated aspects of recovering from sex addiction is determining if the individual is even suffering from it.

From the director of the Sexual Recovery Institute in Santa Monica comes this timely and important contribution to the body of recovery literature. Hopefully this book will provide understanding to gay men seeking healthy sexual expression.

Guest: Robert Weiss, LCSW

Robert Weiss LCSW, CAS is founder and Clinical Director of The Sexual Recovery Institute - Los Angeles, an outpatient sexual addiction treatment center. An acknowledged writer of sexual addiction and cybersex literature, he is co-author of "Cybersex Exposed: Simple Fantasy to Obsession" (Hazelden 2001), author of "Treating Sexual Addiction" in The Handbook of Addictive Disorders. (Wiley and Sons 2004) and author of the upcoming book, Cruise Control: Gay Men and Sex Addiction (Alyson 2005).

A UCLA graduate, and trained under the direction of Dr. Patrick Carnes, Mr. Weiss is a former board member and committee chair of The National Council for Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity and an ongoing lecturer at the University of Southern California, the UCLA Neuro-Psychiatric Institute, The American Association of Sex Educators and Therapists and The National Association of Social Work among many others. He provides clinical training for numerous multi-addiction treatment centers, among which are The Meadows, Sierra Tucson, The Life Healing Center and the Illinois Institute for Addiction. Recently he has been a featured conference speaker for FACES and The US Journal.

Media appearances include Dateline NBC, 20/20, ABC World News Tonight and CNN. Currently, Mr. Weiss is the primary therapist in "Sex Mania" a 90-minute program about Sexual Addiction filmed by the BBC. This show is in rotation on Discovery Channel Health and is also shown internationally. Upcoming media include a lengthy role in National Geographic's Naked Science (November - 2005) about 'Sexuality and the Human Mind' and a key professional role in a major documentary on 2005 HBO special 'Pornography in America'.

In a field with very few recognized experts, Mr. Weiss is a recognized professional in the assessment and treatment of persons with sexual addiction.

Website: www.sexualrecovery.com