Science Says Sex Addiction Is For Real. Here's How To Diagnose It.

A disorder? Please!!! If every man was allowed to he would do it with every hot girl he sees. The movie and sports stars have woman coming at them like flies to bacon. With so many hot females any man would brake if not the most committed to his wife (or a gay man).

“The research could bolster efforts to include sex addiction in the updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, an instruction manual of mental conditions that has criteria for diagnosing everything from autism to schizophrenia. “

Ah yes….the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders…or the DSM. The American Psychiatric Associations approved owner’s manual for nuts.

Well so what if a “disorder” is listed in this thing or not? It depends on who you are. If you are the researcher studying the disorder and it is recognized in the DSM your way is open to research grants. Since it is now a recognized “disorder”, people found “suffering” from it will need therapy. So programs will have to be developed and, since it is now a recognized disorder, there is a possibility that it will be covered by the health insurance companies. Since it is now a recognized disorder, perhaps a medication can be developed to help in the therapy. Of course the medication has to be researched…more grant money.

This time the “disorder” is “Hyper Sex” disorder. I am sure the evidence is overwhelming that this disorder exists. Not just in our times, but examples can be found through out history. For instance, August the 2nd (August the Strong) of Sachsen (1670-1733) was reported to have done wonders to increase the population. Josephine was not the only one for Napoleon either. How many wives are/were Sultans and Asian Emperors allowed?

Well its high time that the mental health field stepped in and did something about it! Who knows how many people are suffering from “A recurring pattern of sexual fantasies, urges and behaviors lasting six months or longer”. There is a need for early recognition. Something like this can start at puberty!

But there appears to be hope. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of the American Psychiatric Association it appears that this “disorder” will be officially recognized. I trust that suitable therapy will follow…lots of therapy.

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"Sexual Addiction"? Ridiculous. Wow! The real disorder is forcing people lives they cannot live with the confines of what is sexually / socially acceptable. So, we give them drugs to make them adapt. Ridiculous. Anyone who has a higher degree of sexual desire has been blessed in a way! The main thing is that these folks shouldn't be brainwashed into having to "settle" with one person. It will make their lives miserable. Instead, exploring some forms of open relationship or just enjoying company without settling down at all would be the best for them! "Sex At Dawn" author Christopher Ryan would tear this article apart.

-- Martin

To the above picture, " rule 34".

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Easily cured with a daily dose of Prozium.

Why is wanting to have sex a lot a bad thing, when did wanting to procreate like everything else in nature become a decease?

I've often wondered if certain so-called addictions (shopping, sex, eating) were really just displacement activities pursued so hard that they started releasing pleasure chemicals.

It's not that the sex (or shopping, or eating) ITSELF is addictive. It's that a person who is depressed, anxious, disconnected, stressed (or whatever) becomes fixated on something presumed to give pleasure, distraction, relief of some sort...and that fixation leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Which then must be repeated.

Did any of the commenters actually read the article, or just the headline?

"-A pattern of sexual activity in response to unpleasant mood states, such as feeling depressed, or a pattern of repeatedly using sex as a way of coping with stress;
-A lack of ability to reduce or stop sexual activities the patient believes are problematic; and
-Evidence of “personal distress” caused by the behavior, like interference with work or relationships."

Sounds a lot like the criteria for ANY addiction. Kind of like how some healthy adults can enjoy alcohol in moderation, and other people are alcoholics.

Yes, duh, people like sex. No one is saying lots of sex is a bad thing.
"People who were diagnosed with HD said they couldn’t control their urges, and even lost jobs over their inability to refrain from porn at work. ...it’s a constant pattern that escalates until their desire for sex is controlling every aspect of their lives and they feel powerless in their efforts to change."
That sounds like a problem.

The whole idea of "addiction" is spurious.

People in chronic pain will chronically do what they can to relieve the pain.

"Addiction" explains nothing. Pain however....

People have become addicted to various things such as drugs, with sex being no different. However, there are moral boundaries that have been established that cannot be crossed by our Creator, Jehovah God. We are created as sexual creatures, but only within the marriage arrangement. Any other use of sex, between a husband and wife (and not oral or anal sex) is a deviation from God's original marital union and is rightly called fornication, the illicit use of the sex organs.

The apostle Paul wrote under inspiration: "For this is what God wills, the sanctifying of you, that you abstain from fornication; that each one of you should know how to get possession of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in covetous sexual appetite such as also those nations have which do not know God."(1 Thess 4:3-5)