After a brief overview from beginning of the century to this day of the evolution of collective narrations on sexuality and its connection with the dysfunctions that these narrations foster, we show in a selection of clinical cases obtained from medical consultations of addicts, that sexuality, instead of being an area of freedom as it should be, is in some cases an area of very strong social constraints. These constraints could promote the onset of certain types of symptom, and addictive behaviours in particular would appear to play a role in relieving, or even in some cases avoiding altogether this constraining dimension inherent to sexuality.