Now, we do it ourselves. In a world that still fears female sexuality and buys into the dichotomy of the Madonna-whore complex, Getting Off is doing crucial work. Interestingly, Garza never identifies herself as queer in her writing, but not for lack of queer experiences. Garza seems uninterested in labeling her sexuality, only hesitatingly adopting the label of addict. I could shut the laptop and walk away when I wanted. It was easier this way, but also not entirely fulfilling. This was not real intimacy, and I knew that. She has sex and orgasms all over the world.

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An author has revealed how her sex addiction saw her host parties up to four nights a week so she could meet men, boast about hating condoms and ruined a relationship with a man she loved by cheating on him with a man she met on holiday and a French waiter. In a provocative new memoir, Getting Off , Erica Garza, 35, from LA charts a struggle with addiction to casual sex and pornography addiction, which she battled for more than two decades. Garza traveled to Bali, Indonesia in an effort to curb her porn and sex addiction. There, she met her husband.
In an era when predatory male sexual behavior has finally become a topic of urgent national discourse—I personally consider it a public-health issue! And my methods of getting this only became darker and more intense so that it wreaked havoc on all aspects of my life until I became a shell of a person, isolated, on a path to certain destruction. Eliot, and went to Hawaii on family vacations. For two years, Garza wore a painful corrective brace, followed by surgery.
In her debut memoir, Getting Off, Erica Garza confronts her experience of overcoming sex and porn addiction, and the shame that still surrounds it. Erica Garza is telling me about the first time she masturbated and the people at the table next to us are doing a very subpar job of pretending not to eavesdrop. She has had no trouble drumming up interest for her book and, if the intrigued glances from the women next to us are anything to go by, it seems likely to amass an immediate audience.