Does sex addiction exist?

That is easy. Anybody with kids have an irregular (opportunistic) sexlife, just ask...

 

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Hands up on that one!

 

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I don't think addiction is the most suitable word to describe the problem, but i do think that it exists. Like most things that bring pleasure sex causes the release of dopamine in the brain. Your brain can become dependant on high levels of a certain neurotransmitter, so if sex is the thing that keeps the feeling high then it does seem possible that you would have a strong drive to maintain that high. Just like gambling "addictions". They both light up the same part of the brain. Scientist cause rats to get addicted to their own dopamine levels all of the time. Since its more so psychological and not chemical there wouldn't really be any physical withdrawl signs. But whether it is an addiction or it isn't, its interfering with these people's lives and they want to change so why shouldn't someone be allowed to help?

 

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Sex addiction in my eyes, is certainly influenced by porn, and easy sex for money. The more we have of something, the more we love it. I certainly love my porn, and can be a right horny shit sometimes.

 

How do you decide who is screwed up ? Are so many sessions a week allowed beyond which one is regarded as screwed up ?

 

I wasn't using regular in that sense. See post No. 6 to which I was responding.

 

If a person is sexually abused as a child and it taught to use their body for power and approval, wouldn't sex just be the tool they use to feel wanted? if the only way you can relate to others is through sex, it would be what you do. Some people drink to be able to talk to others and I guess some would just sleep with them.

 

At least you're not claiming sexual abuse moulds sexual desire. I think that theory sucks.

 

LA firstly the definition of an adiction is something that you cant control and that interfears with your life.

If fucking 24 times a day doesnt interfear with yours or your partners lives then thats fine but if it does then its an adiction.

And yes i belive its quite possable to be adicted to sex just like its possable to be adicted to pokies or working out because all these activites cause an acute jump in nerotransmiters with give the person a "high" (just the same way morphine does out of interest).

They have done studies on gambling adicts which show the same reactions in the brain as a heroin adict shows and futher more narloxin (the antidote to narcotics) has been shown to have an effect in damping the pleasure gained from adictive behavior not only in nicotine adicts but also in gambling adicts and other behavoraly adictive people.

 

And of course it comes as no surprise that most sex addicts are female.

 

99% of humans are addicted to sex. 'Love' is just a cute cover up for what people really want: sex

Sex makes the world go around. It reboots/rejuvenates the system.

A relationship can only last for a limited time, because it runs out of energy, so it will... break up. Babies are born from sex so that the relationships would last longer. (The same with sexual relationships with God: after having 'sex', the Christians are 'reborn' as a child of God.)

 

Yorda your wrong there. There is a difference between liking to do something and an adiction. Take achole for example, lots of people drink but there are only a compartivly small number of acholics. This is because something only becomes an adiction where there is a compulsion to have it AND where it interfears with your regular life. In the case of a sexual relationship in most cases its not interfearing with the way they want there lives. However if you needed sex 20 times a day that would be interfearing in your life (and probably damaging to your body as well). If you couldnt control who you slept with (by this i dont mean that you sleep around but as soon as your done you regret it everytime but cant stop yourself doing it) then thats an adiction.

 

There is no such thing as sexual addiction.

 

wow that was a logical argument. Come on john, give some evidence or at least argue a case