Sexual addiction is known to many people some partnered to victims some victims themselves those are people who have an intense feeling to have sex like the addiction adrenaline when you have the urge to need a cigarette.
It can start off as a normal every so often feeling the need for sex like many of us experience with our partner.
hen It becomes an addiction as it starts to affects the normal day to life we have.
Married men with a sexual addiction usually have a number of affairs usually with sexual partners. Often receiving sexual intercourse from prostitutes on various occasions.
Excessive masturbation per day is also a sign that can be the start or during the duration of addiction.
Excessively using sex chat rooms and viewing pornography constantly, on the computer on the television in magazines and its also usually found on the victims personal mobile phone.
Paedophilia and rape along with public exposure can also occur leaving us hoping the problem is noticed before circumstances get taken to far.
In later stages of an addiction the victim often becomes distant with their partner and often rejects sex from their partners preferring fantasy sex from prostitutes and strangers.
There have been various discussions and test done to find the reason why sexual addiction occurs it is different for each individual. Mostly forming from biological, psychological
emotional difficulties, childhood trauma, personality disorders and mental illnesses such as depression and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Some drugs have also been linked to causing a sexual addiction.
Biological is someone who has
trained their body to receive endorphins and enkephlines (brain chemicals) by reinforcing a desired state with the ejaculation that provides the chemicals to the brain.
Depression and low self esteem can be an effect on a person suffering sexual addiction.
Sex becomes good to them and they become addicted as during sexual intercourse they feel a feeling that makes them forget about their problems and feelings as it gives them temporary relief.
A lot of people think sex addiction only affects men but the number of women becoming sex addicts is growing.
They go throught he same signs and symptoms as males the porn, affairs, prostitues etc.
There is forms of counselling that is quite good including twelve step programs and support group are an important part of the process.
The treament isn’t to make the person give up sex and give them the impression it’s a bad thing but make them see the importance of healthy sex with a partner and that sex isn’t a compulsive thing.