The Guardian - Life & Style • Feb. 8, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
I spent years meeting strangers for masochistic hook-ups. Was I a sex addict?
After a sexually frustrating marriage led to divorce, I chased increasingly extreme BDSM encounters. But I never felt truly satisfied.
Had I been looking for the wrong thing all along? To everyone else, it probably looked like a regular summer’s evening.
Couples and families enjoying the beer garden, people playing cricket on the green – and I was being handcuffed in the passenger seat of a 4x4 by a man I barely knew. My name is Leesa, and I’m a recovered sex addict.
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