According to the world health organization (who), sexual activity improves sexual health and overall well-being. In sexual, as in other spheres of life, there are many different problems. In the United States in the late 1970s, alcoholics anonymous raised the issue of direct sexual addiction.
REFERENCE: sexual addiction (sexual addictive behavior) is an obsessive, pronounced hedonistic behavior that is used to achieve sexual satisfaction and sexual pleasure.
Sexual desires and ways of their satisfaction at each person are individual. In this regard, it is difficult to define the boundaries of sexual activity, beyond which pathological sexual dependence or sexual addiction begins. All of us are to some extent dependent, in a good sense of the word, from pleasure and caresses during intimacy.
Sexual addiction is the obsessive thoughts and actions associated with sex. Often they are expressed in obscene actions or molestation, which a person tries to hide from his colleagues and friends. These compulsive sexual desires are repeated and finally become daily and manifest, for example, in regular self-satisfaction. They can be expressed in other Intrusive actions, such as continuous search for new partners or dependence on certain unacceptable forms of love relationships.
Sexomania cannot be seen as an addiction comparable to substance abuse behavior. The basis of sexual desire, as well as alcohol and drug dependence are similar biochemical processes: the activation of the positive reinforcement system in the Central nervous system, biological substances similar in nature to exogenous narcotic substances – endorphins. However, the somatic effects of substance abuse and sex are different. Although sexomania entails quite serious physical and psychological problems. Inadequate behavior leads to a number of difficulties at work and in communication, has a devastating impact on family life. Patients with this disease significantly increases the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. In particularly severe cases, sexomania leads to physical exhaustion and serious social problems.
The following 12 types of sexual behavior are considered signs of sexual addiction. The problem or pathological dependence can be said when any of these phenomena plays a significant role in the life of a person or his partner, is obsessive or harmful, or a person suffers from several obsessions at the same time. It should be remembered that the corresponding behavior may be manifested consciously or in a weaker form in the conduct of normal sexual life.
In addition, the following additional signs indicate pathological sexual dependence:
How to help a person who has a sexual addiction? When it comes to psychological help, a psychologist specializing in this kind of activity can help a person learn to control their excitement and emotions, as well as find the inner strength to deal with feelings of fear, anxiety and devastation.
Sexually dependent people do not always agree to come to an appointment with a specialist, as most of them simply do not realize the severity and seriousness of their disease. If a person decides to go to a psychologist, he should tune in to long-term psychotherapeutic work that will help reduce the degree of dependence.
A person with sexual addiction must learn to communicate with people, learn to understand and establish relationships. Since it is the social and personal aspects in a person help to get rid of loneliness and establish relationships with others.