By Michael Miner

“I think he makes bad choices,” Beck responded. “Does that make him have to enter a 12-step program? I don’t think so. I don’t think there is such a thing as sexual addiction.”

But doesn’t the Christian right insist on personal responsibility and dismiss the notion of mitigating pathologies?

“Consenting, I may add,” said Beck.

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“The question of judgment does come up,” Hafferkamp allowed. “It seems no matter how good it was, it couldn’t be worth all the trouble it caused. The danger is Bill will be remembered as Blow Job Bill.”

Hafferkamp: “Dr. Susan Block, the west-coast sexologist who’s–”

“We were junior partners,” said Hafferkamp. “Our senior partner suggested to us the title should have a maximum of five words and three of them should be ‘sexual,’ ‘ecstacy,’ and ‘couples.’”