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Sex addiction - otherwise known as sex and love
addiction - may be defined as a strong and uncontrollable urge to have
sex. It's important to say that someone who suffers from sex
addiction there might be different from someone with strong sexual
drive. Sex addiction may be the cause of several problems in your
social life and in your interaction with yourself and others, while a strong
sex drive may lead you to get just a little bit frustrated from not
getting as much sex as you expected. However, a person with a high
sex drive is satisfied with one's sexual life, while an addicted
may never get satisfied no matter how many partners he does or how much
sex he pulls. sex addiction generally comes associated to a highly
stressful and unsatisfying life, although there are no evidences of biological
or chemical plausible reasons.
What's more, reports on internet sex addiction abound,
a.k.a. cyber sex addiction, when someone can't disassociate sexual
life from the internet. Although leading a sexual life as normal as
active. There would be felt a compulsive need to access virtual sex web
chats, and sometimes even burning the midnight oil chatting over people unlikely
to be met.
Another symptom of sex and love addiction is
compulsive masturbation. There is nothing wrong or forbidden as far as
masturbation goes, being generally the first sexual practice that
most of us breakthrough on a regular basis. The problem arises when indulgence
starts to interfere in other aspects of life. If you're about to hurt yourself
from constant masturbation, or if it feels like masturbation is
more important than care about scratching a living, college or social life,
there may be a clear sign of sex addiction.
There's no specific treatment for sex and love addiction
as such. Some places offer programs divided in steps, very similar to the
alcoholic anonymous programs. If you by any chance manage to spot sex
addiction-like symptoms, a huge step there will be. Usually, people won't
seek sex addiction treatment or sex addiction help, only if posed
by law enforcement agencies or when relationship feels as if under
threat.
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What is hyper- sexuality all about? A compulsive sexual
behavior takes place when sexuality induces to suffering and takes a toll
on relationships. A damage of social-occupational kind with compulsive
sexual behavior include financial expenditure, infidelity, sexual
affairs with peers and family members and the shame experienced, which
embarrasses those involved in. Hyper-sexuality, so far, can be found
predominantly amongst men, might regarding matters as biological,
social-cultural amongst others.
The amount of casual sex showed by researches, Wyatt-1988, reports a
weekly-trend figure of about two sexual relations for the majority of
men. Therefore, hyper-sexuality may be a manifestation of
Obsessive-Compulsive framework with sexual symptoms, much as in drug and
game addiction in that affects 3% up to 6% of the population.
As for complications, in potential, include genital lesions-bruises-like and
diseases sexually transmitted-B hepatitis, herpes and HIV infection.
Those with compulsive sexual behavior being usually complicated marriage
subjects. Mostly due to a sexual appetite bigger than of sex
partner's, of whom subjected to a sexual activity not always pleasurable
or desired.
Among those with symptoms of hyper-sexuality, there are those who show
no signs of any other sexual dysfunction, while others display
neuropsychiatry problems.
A symptom of Mania, which is one of the phases of Bipolarity, characterized
by excessive libido, might be one of the causes of hyper-sexuality in
compliance with another disease. Even so not a rule of thumb,
hyper-sexuality may appear alongside a paraphilia, being that rather
serious cases.
Hyper-sexuality can reflect, often, a lack of inhibition typical of
the frontal lobe, whereby lesions on this area may be followed by lack oh
inhibition and a hypersexual impulsive-like response. Temporal limb-like
lesions can be followed by disrupted patterns of sexual appetite,
inclusive alterations in the aiming of sexual impulse.
The pharmacological treatment entails antidepressants, humor stabilizers,
which may prove useful in patients with hyper-sexuality of affective
alterations, apart from behavioral psychotherapy.
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