I’m not sure if “sex addiction” is the right word but it is a word that has been used by professionals like Dr. Patrick Carnes, who has written extensively about the notion and treated people on the basis that they are “sex addicts”.
Tiger Woods used the phrase “sex addict” to describe himself.
There’s a worldwide group called “Sex Addicts Anonymous”.
Adult beverage drunks are commonly called “alcoholics” and some folks in alcoholic circles also identify as drug addicts and others also describe themselves as “sex drunks”.
Just as there is an Alcoholics Anonymous, there is also a Sexaholics Anonymous using 12 Steps and 12 Traditions like AA does.
It isn’t an issue that he was having sex with too many people, and that he tried to stop himself and found that he couldn’t. Sex addition isn’t an official psychiatric diagnosis because it primarily exists to allow the perpetrator to escape responsibility for the consequences of his actions. But I do hope that if he is sincerely remorseful there are counseling programs available.
If having a 12 step group helps people stop random compulsive indiscriminate sex action, that’s great. It’s a compulsion beyond the normal urge to have sex.
It’s like food addiction. We are humans, not beasts. Beasts eat what is in front of them and screw anything in heat in their species. We have our frontal lobes and morality. We need to choose our sex partners and times well, and same with food. A married man can go on a vacation with his wife and have sex 5 times a day. But it is wrong for the same married man to have sex five times a days with strangers at work or on the way home.
It’s not an actual addiction. It’s a compulsion and should be called that. If the programs were worth their salt, they would ask the person joining to make sure he told EVERYONE, especially potential hookups, that he has a compulsion to random sex. This will make having sex with him seem very unsavory. It will help him not arouse people but turn them off from him which would be good. “Hi, I’m a sexual compulsive,” makes the other person realize how nothing the coupling is to him.