Women sex addicts experience many of the same life
consequences from their addiction as do men, but there are some critical
additions. The most obvious ones involve women’s health, such as unwanted
pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases.

It would be interesting to find more on the incidence of sexual addiction among those women who are diagnosed with a STD especially among swingers. One female addict who contracted cervical cancer as a result of an undetected STD had been a long-term patientof a physician. He had treated her for several years and heard her disclosures about her multiple partners and compulsive sexual activity.

An often overlooked consequence of female sex addiction is the unique
impact it has on her family. The male co-addict, whose wife is the sexually
addicted partner, suffers special shame. Her children also suffer in an added way, because they are particularly susceptible to the trauma of her physical or emotional absence, since women are still the primarily nurturers in our culture. Also, a female addict’s multiple partners may possibly increase her children’s risk of being abused, including sexually.