therapy, known as CBT (Beck, 1976; Burns, 1999), and encourage 12-step recovery meetings (Carnes, 2001) to address his sexual addiction. Likely the counseling goal would be to stop compulsive sexual behavior. Russ’s behavior would probably be seen as a problem because it is causing significant distress for him and those closest to him. Many traditional forms of counseling seem to use a “violation of personal standards” as the basis of determining the appropriateness or inappropriateness—or “rightness”