I spent years meeting strangers for masochistic hook-ups. Was I a sex addict?

Leesa Morris: ‘For most of my adult life I’d been told that my sexual tastes were weird.’ Photograph: Amit Lennon/The Guardian

To everyone else, it probably looked like a regular summer’s evening. Couples and families enjoying the beer garden, people playing cricket on the green – and I was being handcuffed in the passenger seat of a 4x4 by a man I barely knew.

My name is Leesa, and I’m a recovered sex addict.