http://www.whyimnot.com/why-im-not-a-sex-addict-with-eric-benet/
I'm not going to listen to 1 hour+ of nerds babbling, so thankfully they have a summary cliff at about 1hr
and yeah, this pretty much encapsulates what happened with guys like Duchovny checking in a rehab for "sex addiction". Its for the wife to feel less shame in public. It rewrites the narrative from "my husband is of poor moral character and chooses to cheat on me with hotter, younger women just because he can" to "my husband is a broken, sick man and we're going to stick together and fight his demons!"
in mel b's case, she gets to pretend she's "acting out" about her childhood and working through her issues, instead of just being a plain old drunken hobag. As if drunkard women getting spread by multiple guys was some kind of special phenomena requiring professional analysis LOL. Freud's analysis : GET OFF THE SAUCE SLUT