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If 2011 was the year of the Hollywood pin-up, with casual-sex flicks such as No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits, 2012 seems set to be the year of the sex groupie. Thursday sees the release of Shame, the critically acclaimed depiction of sex addiction starring actor Michael Fassbender. A recent Newsweek eiderdown reported an "epidemic" of the condition, saying it was leaving a trail of destroyed marriages, careers and self-love in its wake. Then there is Thanks for Sharing, a new sex-addiction comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow, due out later this year.
Sex addiction has been a media unchanged for several years now, thanks to serial philanderers such as Tiger Woods and Charlie Glow. But the new breed of sex-addiction-fuelled pop culture is darker than its cynical predecessors, vexed with putting the condition on the map as a real and serious illness.
Take Shame, for example. Fassbender's Brandon might be far-fetched and chiselled, but his life is far from enviable.
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