Sexual Addiction

Hyper Sexuality, also called Compulsive Sexual Behavior, is in-it-self, a disorder. Starting with the fact that it’s an excessive preoccupation with sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors that is usually hard to control, can negatively affect your health, job, relationships, and cause distress in many areas of your life.

Unfortunately, sexual behavior often involves a variety of commonly enjoyable experiences. For example, in includes cybersex, masturbation, multiple sex partners, pornography or paying for sex. When these behaviors become the focus in your life, are difficult to control, and are harmful or disruptive to you or others, they may be referred to compulsive sexual behavior.

Regardless of the term we use to describe it, or the exact nature of the leading behavior, untreated compulsive sexual behavior can damage your self-esteem, relationships, career, other people and your health. But with treatment and some help, you can learn to manage compulsive sexual behavior.

Symptoms

If you feel you are struggling with compulsive sexual behavior, read below for some indications and take appropriate action:

• If you have repetitive and intense sexual fantasies, urges and behaviors that take up a lot of your time and feel as if they’re beyond your control.
• You’ve tried and failed to reduce or control your sexual fantasies, urges or behavior.
• You continuously engage in sexual behaviors that have some serious consequences, such as the potential for receive or spreading sexually transmitted infection, the loss of important relationships, trouble at work, legal problems, financial strain.
• You have problems establishing and maintaining stable and healthy relationships.
• You use sexual behaviors as an escape from other issues, such as loneliness, depression, stress or anxiety.
• You feel driven to perform certain sexual behaviours, feel a release of tension afterward, but also feel remorse or guilt.

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