Sex Addict? (women, lover, cheat, kids)

[DONNIEANDDONNA417]

Ok im watching criminal minds...

This girl was such a sex addict that she hung out in the mens bathroom

so my questions is it there a such thing?

I mean I like sex but addiction? do I need counseling? I just cant believe it can be an illness.

Any insights?

[Bondurant]

I think "sex addiction" was a term invented for famous men that cheat on spouses.

[punky86]

I'm a female and was dubbed a sex addict when I was in high school. I have addictive tendencies so it might have been a real thing. I did see a therapist for it.

[funymann]

Originally Posted by punky86

I'm a female and was dubbed a sex addict when I was in high school. I have addictive tendencies so it might have been a real thing. I did see a therapist for it.

annnnd he's been helping you ever since.

3 days a week 2 hour sessions.

What? Am I wrong? Jk

[SifuPhil]

"Sexual addiction" is no longer in the latest DSM-IV-TR, although it had been in earlier editions. There IS an entry for a miscellaneous diagnosis called Sexual Disorders Not Otherwise Specified, which now includes: "distress about a pattern of repeated sexual relationships involving a succession of lovers who are experienced by the individual only as things to be used."

I believe it is now viewed as hypersexuality with companion symptoms shared with bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder.

No, I do not suffer from it. Not at all. In fact, I enjoy it.

[funymann]

I think it is real.

There are people that can't get enough. They even resort to prostitutes.

I, however, have not entered that stage thankfully but I find sex an addicting thing.

It's a multi-billion dollar a year business here in the US. There is something to be said.

Why just the title of this thread made me enter to see. I'm so naughty.

[CarolVa1977]

There is a book called "Love sick" about a woman addicted to sex, but I believe most woman that are like that were molested when kids.

They made a Movie about it, google it. It is very interesting.

[Big-Bad-John]

Originally Posted by Bondurant

I think "sex addiction" was a term invented for famous men that cheat on spouses.

It also could/can apply to women. Often the ones, no matter how good or he rocks their world, they must get it elsewhere. It's more about "strange".

[LuckyGem]

Originally Posted by DONNIEANDDONNA417

Ok im watching criminal minds...

This girl was such a sex addict that she hung out in the mens bathroom

so my questions is it there a such thing?

I mean I like sex but addiction? do I need counseling? I just cant believe it can be an illness.

Any insights?

Compulsive behavior is unhealthy. Having an uncontrollable urge to perform an act.

[Texas User]

Female peak at 30 though and men go down from 18.