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What is sex addiction?
In current medical terminology, it is sexual impulse control disorder or hypophilia, a form of compulsive sexual behavior. Some scholars prefer to use the terms sex drive control disorder and compulsive sexual behavior.
Actually psychopathology and psychology as early as the beginning of the 20th century middle of sex addiction research. The American psychological association (APA) has so far not recognized sex addiction as a defined, prescriptive, treatable mental disorder.
How do you know you have sex addiction?
many person have sex and love addiction. We can judge according to the following content. There are generally two stages of sex addiction:
- Stage 1: Indulge in the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of sex addiction.
- Stage 2: Pain outweighs pleasure. Shame, guilt and frustration outweighs enjoyment.
Some scholars later rejected these two stages, saying that the first stage is simply sexual activity, not sex addiction or control disorder.
One would think that a sex addict must be constantly changing sexual partners, or even staying in a sexual relationship with multiple partners at the same time, but some of them use masturbation to solve their problems.
However, when sex addiction reaches a certain level, masturbation alone can not meet their needs.
Therefore, the problem of sex addiction is not only determined by the number of times of sex and the number of sexual partners, but also by whether it is a compulsive behavior on oneself.
In fact, sex is like eating and drinking water. A sex addict is like a person who eats a large amount of food. He may only eat white rice all the time, or he may eat different food. However, we rarely eat again after we've had enough, and sex addicts can't help but stuff their mouths.
Sex addicts may have all sorts of sex thoughts running through their heads from time to time, whether it's in a meeting at work or at a party with friends. Sex itself is supposed to bring people a kind of pleasure, but sex addiction make them become the slaves of sex.
What causes sex addiction?
It is generally believed that sex addiction is caused by factors from psychological, physical, family or social. Physiological factors are generally caused by endocrine diseases or drugs.
The academic consensus is that sex addiction is that an insecure person seeking stimulation and validation of their own worth(not absolutely). But in fact, the so-called sex addiction, in addition to physiological drug factors, it may also be related to childhood experiences or sudden changes.
Marty Klein, an American sex therapist and marriage counselor, said: "I would not easily diagnose sex addiction. People with these tendencies are basically simultaneously struggling with other psychological problems: obsessive-compulsive disorder, impulsivity, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder."
Are sex addicts dangerous?
In fact, most of the hazards of sex addicts are themselves, disrupting their lives and mental states, as described above. However, sex addicts are more likely to become sex offenders.
How to overcome sex addiction?
First of all, we should find the cause of sex addiction. If it is an endocrine disease, we should seek medical treatment in time to eliminate the root cause of sex addiction.
If it is caused by a psychological disorder, seek help from a psychologist. Many sex addiction patients with anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder, so active treatment of these psychological disorders can reduce the degree of sex addiction.
For the mental stress brought by modern society, you can try proper exercise to eliminate it, For example, running, cycling, and fitness.
Sex addicts also tend to seek out the opposite sex to release their sexual desires, so buying a sex doll is another solution, which can be used as an alternative partner to release their desire.
The TPE sex doll has the same texture as the real person, and the vagina completely imitates the real woman, which can achieve the same pleasure as the real person when having sex.
