Learn all about sex addiction

• April 19, 2024

The addiction to sex is a personality disorder that negatively impacts the lives of the individuals who suffer from it, and may begin to see pornography on the internet or on television for a few hours a day.

According to some sex therapists, this problem affects 6% of the world's population, and it is a addiction real, as well as a way to escape from the low self-esteem and the feelings of go to and insecurity .

The also known as hypersexuality is recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, as a obsessive-compulsive disorder , that those who suffer it are unable to control their thoughts and their repetitive acts.

In addition, this condition can occur in any person, regardless of gender or social stratum; even suffer it artists, sportsmen and comedians like Jeff Leach , who at 27, recognizes that she has had sexual relations with more than 300 women.

For Jeff Leach, the disorder is exhausting, because seeing a woman as a potential sexual adventure tires him and makes him feel miserable, empty, superficial and completely alone, so he seeks to change his lifestyle.

How to identify a person addicted to sex?

1. He has no control over his actions even though his behavior generates negative feelings
2. It requires greater stimuli to satisfy its growing need
3. He resorts compulsively to masturbation, as well as to continuous appointments of a single night
4. Obsessive sexual thinking and sexual fantasies are growing
5. They are big consumers of pornography in magazines, internet and television

In the next video, GetQoralHealth It explains why it is addictive pornography and how it triggers social problems:

The treatment for addiction to sex or to the pornography It consists of recognizing the problem and going to therapy with professionals, who will help find the cause of it.

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