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sexCurrently, sex addiction is not formally recognized as an addiction. The medical community is sharply divided, not only over the addiction's signs, symptoms, causes, and treatments, but also over whether or not it even exists. As a result, sex addiction goes by many names (sexual compulsion, compulsive sexual behavior, hypersexuality, erotomania, nymphomania) and is variously regarded as a psychological addiction. It also has similar in nature to pornography addiction.


Despite the disagreement, hundreds of thousands of people suffer from an uncontrollable and unmanageable compulsion to engage in reckless sexual behavior. Much like an alcoholic's relationship with alcohol, a sex addict will struggle against sexual thoughts and needs so overwhelming that they begin to interfere with their personal and professional lives; they engage in potentially harmful sexual activity; the compulsions cause them to neglect every other aspect of their lives; and no matter what they do, they can not stop these behaviors nor their sex addiction.


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