Hypersexuality is a clinical diagnosis used by mental health care professionals to describe a very frequent or sudden increase in libido. The terms nymphomania and satyriasis were once used to describe the condition, in women and men respectively, but no longer in general medical use, although the first is still in daily use.
Hypersexuality may be a primary condition, or a symptom of a disease or other medical condition, such as KlÃÆ'¼ver-Bucy syndrome or bipolar disorder. Hypersexuality can also be present as a side effect of drugs such as drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease, or through the administration of hormones such as testosterone and estrogen during hormone therapy. Doctors have not reached consensus on how best to describe hypersexuality as a primary condition, or to determine the feasibility of describing such behavior and impulse as a separate pathology.
Hypersexual behavior is perceived as diverse by clinicians and therapists as addictions, a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or "OCD spectrum disorder", or impulsivity disorder. A number of authors do not recognize such pathologies and instead assert that these conditions reflect only the cultural dislike of extraordinary sexual behavior.
Consistent in the absence of consensus on what causes hypersexuality, authors have used many different labels to refer, sometimes interchangeably, but often depending on which theory they like or what specific behavior they learn. Contemporary names include compulsive masturbation, compulsive sexual behavior, cybersex addiction, erotomania, "excessive sex drive", hyperphilia, hypersexuality, hypersexual disorders, problematic hypersexuality, sexual addiction, compulsive sexual, sexual dependence, sexual impulsivity, "beyond the control of sexual behavior ", and related disorders of paraphilia.
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Terminology
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines hypersexual as "showing unusual or excessive attention to or pleasure in sexual activity". Sexologists have been using the term "hypersexuality" since the late 1800s, when Krafft-Ebing described some cases of extreme sexual behavior in his 1886 seminal Psychopathia Sexualis. The author uses the term "hypersexuality" to describe the condition that will now be called premature ejaculation. Terms to describe men with conditions including donjuanist satyromaniac satyriac and satyriasist , for women clitoromaniac , nympho and nymphomaniac , for heterosexual women teleiophilic andromaniac , while hypersexualist , sexaholic, onanist, hyperphiliac and erotomaniac are gender-neutral terms.
Other names, most of history, include Don Juanism, Messalina complexes, hyperlibido sexaholism and uterine furor.
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Cause
There is little consensus among experts on the cause of hypersexuality. Several studies have shown that some cases may be associated with biochemical or physiological changes that accompany dementia. Psychological needs also complicate biological explanations, which identify the temporal/frontal lobes of the brain as areas for regulating libido. People suffering from injuries to this part of the brain are at increased risk for aggressive behavior and other behavioral problems including socially inappropriate personality changes and sexual behaviors such as hypersexuality. The same symptoms can occur after unilateral temporal lobotomy. There are other biological factors associated with hypersexuality such as premenstrual changes, and exposure to enlarged hormones in childhood or in the womb.
In studies involving the use of antiandrogens to reduce unwanted sexual behaviors such as hypersexuality, testosterone has been found to be necessary, but not enough, for sexual urges. Other proposed factors include lack of physical closeness, and forget about the past.
Pathogenic inactivity of the mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway in the brain - forming either psychiatrically, during mania, or pharmacologically, as a side effect of dopamine agonists, in particular D 3 - agonist cycles - is associated with various addictions and has been shown to result in between some excessive behavior, sometimes hypersexual.
As a symptom
Hipersexuality is known to show itself as a symptom with respect to a number of mental and neurological disorders. Some people with threshold personality disorder (sometimes referred to as BPD) can be very impulsive, seductive, and very sexual. Sexual intercourse, sexual obsessions, and hypersexuality are very common symptoms for men and women with BPD. Sometimes for some people there are extreme forms of drive and paraphilic desire. Patients "Borderline", because in the opinion of some people to use the solution, experience love and sexuality in an unstable manner.
People with bipolar disorder may often show a remarkable swing in the sex drive depending on their mood. As defined in DSM-IV-TR, hypersexuality may be a symptom of hypomania or mania in bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder. Pick disease causes damage to the temporal/frontal lobes of the brain; people with Pick's disease exhibit a variety of socially inappropriate behaviors.
Some neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, autism, various types of brain injury, KlÃÆ'¼ver-Bucy syndrome, Kleine-Levin syndrome, and many other neurodegenerative diseases can lead to hypersexual behavior. Improper sexual behavior has been shown to occur in 7-8% of Alzheimer's patients who are at home, at a nursing facility or in a hospital. Hipersexuality has also been reported as a side effect of some drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease. Some street drugs, such as methamphetamine, may also contribute to hypersexual behavior.
A positive relationship between the severity of dementia and the occurrence of inappropriate behavior has also been found. Hypersexuality can be caused by dementia in a number of ways, including disinhibition due to organic disease, misreading social cues, understimulation, persistence of sexual behavior learned after other behaviors have been lost, and side effects of drugs used to treat dementia. Other possible causes of dementia related hypersexuality include improper psychological needs for intimacy and past forgetfulness. As the disease develops, increased hypersexuality has theorized to sometimes compensate for a decrease in self-esteem and cognitive function.
As a nuisance
In 2010, a proposal to add Sexual Addiction to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) system has failed to gain support from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The DSM excludes entries called Other Non-Individual Sexual Disorders (NOS Sexual Disorders) to apply to, among other conditions, "the distress of repeated sexual patterns involves the succession of lovers experienced by the individual only as things to do. ".
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Health Related Problems (ICD-10) from the World Health Organization (WHO), including two relevant entries. One of them is "Excessive Sexual Encouragement" (coded F52.7), which is divided into satyriasis for men and nymphomania for women. The other is "Excessive Masturbation" or "Onanism (excessive)" (coded F98.8).
Some authors question whether it makes sense to discuss hypersexuality altogether, arguing that the labeling of "extreme" sex drive only stigmatizes people who are inconsistent with their cultural norms or peer groups.
Treatment
Hipersexuality can negatively affect a person. The concept of hypersexuality as an addiction began in 1970 by former members of Alcoholics Anonymous who felt they had similar control and compulsive deficiencies with sexual behavior such as alcohol. Some 12-step style self-help groups now exist for people who identify as sex addicts, including Sex Addicts Anonymous, Anonymous Sexaholics, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, and Anual Sexual Compulsuals. Some hypersexuals can treat their condition with any medication or food that is considered an anaphrodisiac. Other hypersexuals may choose consultation routes, such as psychotherapy, self-help groups or counseling.
See also
- Erotophilia
- Persistent genital arousal disorder
- Pornography addiction
- Sexually Compulsive Scale
References
External links
- WikiSaurus: libidinis
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