What is a Sex Addict - Sexual Compulsion

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A brief discription of Sexual Compulsion

Sex addicts are people who, desperately afraid of any truly intimate
relationship,repeatedly and compulsively try to connect with others
through highly impersonal nonintimate behaviors:
masturbation, empty affairs, frequent visits to prostitutes,
voyeurism, and the like.

Sex addicts—numbering in the millions, both men and women,
young and old, of all races and religions—become mesmerized with the
thrill and rush of adrenaline that they can achieve only through
their obsessive, highly ritualized patterns of sexual behavior.

Sexual addiction, also called sexual compulsion
is a form of psychological addiction.
The behavior of sex addicts is comparable to behavior of alcoholics and [drug] addicts, where sex functions like a drug.

A common definition of alcoholism is that a person has a pathological
relationship with this mood altering drug.

It provides a quick mood change, works every time and the user loses
control over their compulsion. Like alcoholics, sex addicts' lives
rotate around the constant desire for their "drug" of choice.

The Mayo Clinic uses compulsive sexual behavior for sexual addiction
and identifies characteristics of the sex addict as "an overwhelming need for sex and are so intensely preoccupied with this need that it interferes with your job and your relationships.

You may spend inordinate amounts of time in sexually related activities and neglect important aspects of your day-to-day life in social, occupational and recreational areas.

You may find yourself failing repeatedly at attempts to reduce or control your sexual activities or desires.

According to Counseling Affiliates, an addiction is at work when sex becomes shameful, secret, or abusive.

The Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health further illustrates addiction by outlining several key components: "Compulsivity, that is,
loss of the ability to choose freely whether to stop or to continue;

Continuation of the behavior despite adverse consequences, such as
loss of health, job, marriage, or freedom; Obsession with the activity.

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[chrisman737]

Great video on a various serious addiction. Great information here. Ignore those posting who clearly do not know what sexual addiction is. For those of you who can't tell the difference between simply having a lot of sex and sexual addiction, start at 1:30 and watch until the end of the video, and you will have all the information you need.

[MasterCSX]

@jonybrown Its not funny. I suffered from this.  I'm glad to see theres help for individuals wanting change.

[divine6699]

GOD GAVE YOU SEX ORGANS TO USE THEM, NOT ABUSE THEM.

[C63AMGestate]

God gave you sex organs to use them, not to repress them.

[sexualfuturist]

Certainly, it's not healthy to be at a place where some behavior or thought overruns your life. Sexuality needs to be managed, and many teens and young adults are not taught how to manage their sexuality, or even how to understand it. Our repressive society isn't helping. Repressing your sexuality will never allow you to understand or manage it.

[jonybrown]

lol @ sex addiction......everything it described, sounds familar to drug, alcohole and gambling addiction.......lol....

[nayhoe]

Sex attiction what a load of Crap you dirty b*astards get a hobbie instead to occupy yourselfs instead of sitting in your w*nk pit all day and going at it like rabbits

[number1muso]

Great video :) people need to know more about this subject.

Check out my blog about my battle with sec addiction. There's a link to my google account on my youtube account which has a link to my blog. I hope it helps someone. Good luck to those fighting alongside me.

[StopSexualUrges]

this will become a thing of the PAST : )

[taildragger51]

Not disputing..this is ALSO a wonderful piece of film. Thank you.