the exceptionally icky splinters
a certain hardwired type of pornography- and onanistic sex-addict, which has given rise to a couple exceptionally icky Step-based fellowships.
Context
The Program's reach into compulsions past substances: the "hardwired" porn- and masturbation-addict, and the "couple exceptionally icky Step-based fellowships" spawned to treat them. The Twelve-Step template stretched onto appetite itself, the recovery model applied where the drug is a behavior.