It seems that disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein isn’t taking his “sex rehab” very seriously. According to Page Six, he is continuing his belligerent and abusive behavior even going so far as to arrive at group therapy sessions late and leave sessions to take phone calls on his (banned) cell phone. I am not a psychiatrist or even a psychologist, but I know a little something about sexual predators-which is exactly what Harvey Weinstein is. There is a difference between a sex addict—which is not actually contained in the diagnostic “bible” known as the DSM V—and a sex offender. As explained by Psychology Today:

“A sex offense is a sex offense because there is a potential victim involved – and the possibility that someone is harmed.”

Weinstein is also complaining that all of this is a conspiracy. From the aforementioned Page Six article: “…when it was his turn to speak, he launched into a speech about how this is all a conspiracy against him.” Hmm, where have I heard that before? I am thinking it was a Clinton who said something similar back in the 1990’s. Frankly, I thought it was bullshit back then, too.

With the ever-lengthening list of victims (or survivors as I prefer to view them) of Weinstein coming forward, it is clear that classifying him as a sex addict would not only be intellectually dishonest but frankly hazardous to the health of females who are exposed to him. After all, I doubt that the cavorting of a run-of-the-mill sexual addict—one who displays a “clear prevalence of adverse sexual behavior “—would result in police investigations in three countries as the Weinstein case has.

I frankly agree with Emma Thompson’s assessment of Harvey Weinstein in the interview below. He is a predator. That is vastly different from a sex addict.