i want to go to laura berman now. but particularly mary you're talking to us tonight from new orleans, which is the state where senator vitter is in. he admitted, you know, basically going to a prostitute, i believe it's fair to say, or at least to indiscretions. and yet he's been able to remain in office. i've gotten a bunch of e-mails from viewers today saying, well, how come he can stay in office and people are saying weiner can't? so i'm going to talk to you about that before the break -- after the break. but laura, plenty of people send intimate pictures of themselves to others online. i don't understand a congressman thinking it was at all a good idea to send intimate pictures of himself to people he had never even metalegendary. >> yeah. no, this is -- allegedly, right. it's not a good idea, and he knees it's not a good idea but -- >> so why do it? what is that impulse? >> it's an impulse -- first of all, there are many -- it's very common, as we've seen, in high-power men, especially it seems in high-power pol

laura berman. laura, thanks for coming in this morning.ry bad habit and disease? >> you know, it's a hard line to draw. we obviously to know more about anthony weiner's case. we know that he's checked into treatment. he's not proclaimed that he's a sex addict. you're right. it's become something that's thrown around to make yourself less vulnerable and less to blame. i'm not just a serial cheater. i'm ill here. so, it's not to say that sex addiction doesn't exist -- >> you think it does? >> i think in some cases it does but not nearly to the degree in which it's being proclaimed or diagnosed. people who are sex addicted are not in the driver's seat. they are completely out of control. they're engaging in extremely high-risk behaviors, putting them at physical or legal risks. they're not able to stop themselves. >> how do you treat it? >> well, even in those cases, a 12-step program isn't necessarily the best plan or the plan that's going to work best. it's really about figuring out what void inside you the sex or the sex acting out. this i

laura berman is joining us. she's the renowned sex and relationship expert.ou for joining us. he says he needs some therapy, he needs some help. what is going on here? >> he definitely needs some therapy and some help and he's certainly not alone. i mean, this just keeps happening again and again. deny, deny, deny. and then a public figure in public office, you're going to be found out and certainly he's not only lost his wife's trust but all of ours as well. >> obviously he had a powerful instinct to said these photos and to get into these twitter conversations, if you will, with these young women out there. he says, most of them occurred before he got married about a year ago but some took place even after he got married. explain, as you're a sex therapist. you understand what is going on here. >> well, you know, i've been watching him and as i was watching his back story as the story has been unfolding, he's known for being very aggressive, for being very volatile. he clearly, even his hairline and his jawbone, he clearly is a man that has a tremendous amo

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