“I Am A Sex Addict”

I Was Forced to Watch…

Mary Carter
4 min readNov 20, 2024

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Cinema rarely gifts us with moments of truth as raw as Caveh Zahedi’s “I Am A Sex Addict.” This documentary about a man who can’t stop fucking prostitutes is as fascinating as it is disturbing — a dance between courage and narcissism that perfectly mirrors the very nature of sexual addiction.

I Am a Sex Addict 2005 — Directed by Caveh Zahedi

While Cincinnati Bengals fans live in an endless cycle of hope and frustration, Zahedi drags us into his own spiral of desire and guilt. Look at the irony: a man who turned his jerk-off sessions in Parisian confessionals into a work of art. And the most intriguing part? It works, in a way.

The narrative oscillates between moments of brilliant self-awareness and pure self-indulgence.

When Zahedi admits to stalking women through European streets with uncontrollable horniness, he’s simultaneously exposing a universal truth about male desire and revealing his own demons.

Just like the Bengals occasionally show flashes of genius amid chaos.

The filmmaker has balls, that’s undeniable. How many of us would publicly admit to spending entire nights driving around asking prostitutes

“Will you suck me off?” while our wives sleep at home?

Brutal honesty has its own kind of beauty, even when it makes us squirm with…

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Mary Carter
Mary Carter

Written by Mary Carter

I share candid reflections on love, sex, and life's ups and downs, no holds barred and no taboos.

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