"If the starry list of past clientele led Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein to expect four-star accommodations in the all-male sex-addict facility, Gentle Path at The Meadows, they must have been sorely disappointed.
The dorm-style, two-person rooms are reminiscent of those found in a midlevel hotel, and electronics get surrendered at the door.
Books and magazines — due to their potential to trigger sexual thoughts — are verboten as well.
Celebrities and one-percenters have helped turn The Meadows into one of the top refuges of choice for beleaguered bold-facers.l Trigger
...Stars who’ve retreated to the Wickenburg, Ariz. (some 60 miles northwest of Phoenix), facility to repent at the sex-addiction wing also include Tiger Woods.
...Stars who’ve retreated to the Wickenburg, Ariz. (some 60 miles northwest of Phoenix), facility to repent at the sex-addiction wing also include Tiger Woods.
Rush Limbaugh showed up to battle a prescription pain pill addiction, Kate Moss and Donatella Versace for cocaine, Elle Macpherson for depression and Selena Gomez to recover from chemotherapy treatments related to lupus. (The Meadows also offers treatment for pathological gambling and eating disorders.)...
...Men in the program are restricted from wearing shorts, so as not to create sexual triggers among each other.
The source says he witnessed no carnal interactions among his fellow male patients.
“We gathered in a conference room and acknowledged who we were,” said the source.
“You’d give your name and your core behavior — prostitution, porn, cheating, whatever it was — and come up with something that you wanted to talk about...
“Maybe you’d discuss a certain trigger, like that if you leave the office stressed you always stop at a massage parlor or a strip club.
There were guys there who would spend $50,000 or $60,000 a night on strippers.
Then you work to come up with a way of dealing with the trigger.
A suggestion might be to take a different route home or call your wife and tell her you’ll be there in 20 minutes.”"
...Men in the program are restricted from wearing shorts, so as not to create sexual triggers among each other.
The source says he witnessed no carnal interactions among his fellow male patients.
“We gathered in a conference room and acknowledged who we were,” said the source.
“You’d give your name and your core behavior — prostitution, porn, cheating, whatever it was — and come up with something that you wanted to talk about...
“Maybe you’d discuss a certain trigger, like that if you leave the office stressed you always stop at a massage parlor or a strip club.
There were guys there who would spend $50,000 or $60,000 a night on strippers.
Then you work to come up with a way of dealing with the trigger.
A suggestion might be to take a different route home or call your wife and tell her you’ll be there in 20 minutes.”"
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