Hugh Hefner doesn’t believe in sex addiction. The Playboy founder — who has famously enjoyed relationships with multiple girlfriends at the same time on the E! reality series The Girls Next Door — claims the mumbo jumbo “condition” is just a “cop out” for cheaters careless to have gotten caught.
Here’s what the 84-year-old had to say on the topic in a chat with AskMen.com this week: “I think by and large it’s a cop out. I think ’sex addiction’ is a convenient phrase for what is really an obsession. Sex is not like a drug or alcohol. It doesn’t affect the physicality in the same way. But it can become very obsessive. Neurotic people can do very foolish things. People make choices. Most people who cheat do it because they think they can get away with it.”