The premiere of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew ventured into territory that was uncharted not just for VH1’s Rehab franchise, but for TV, period. Below, Drew helps us sort out some of our questions regarding sex rehab in general and the show’s premiere, specifically. Along the way, he talks about the trouble with our culture’s blase attitude about sex, his thoughts on the sex industry and the plan Jenny (aka Penny Flame) arrived with to sabotage the production of this show.

I think this show is going to make a lot of people wonder if they’re sex addicts.

Yes. But I think it’s not so much sexual addiction that people are going to think about. They’re going to think about love addiction. Or they’re going to see periods of their life where they had sexual addiction or compulsion. And when it comes to sexual addiction, really you have to look at how deeply embedded in trauma that frequently is. Not everybody has trauma. People have periods of their lives where these things come up, and they might get carried away, let’s say. That does not an addict make. That’s just like when someone binge drinks for a while and then stops. I certainly hope it will make people think about their behavior a little bit, [and learn] that it comes from a place that’s maybe not so healthy and not as cool as our culture makes it seem. And then the love addiction angle everybody can relate to. Everybody has had manifestations of something like that at periods in their lives. Every sixteen- or seventeen-year-old has had those feelings. Most people outgrow them, but we can look at that and go, “Oooh, wait a minute. I’ve done some of those things. Where did that come from?” And maybe this thing that we value and call “romantic love” is not necessarily steeped in health. We’ve sort of adopted it as a sort of ideal, when in fact it’s not. And we have to really look at these things and get a good look at ourselves. The issues of intrusiveness, abandonment, abuse and neglect are so common in our culture, and they’re manifestations in our adult interpersonal lives.

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