Is Sex Addiction A Disease?
When popular culture and media glorify certain acts to pass them off as humorous character traits, it becomes difficult to look at these traitsin any other way.One such “character trait” is serial adultery. Hank Moody in Californication , Charlie Harper in Two and a Half Men and countless other similar characters have led to the promotion of a belief that hyper-sexuality is a mere character flaw, if not an outright trait to be revered. This indication makes it unlikely to take sex addiction as a serious disease, making it hard to diagnose it, and even harder to seek help for it. Let’s take a deeper look at sex addiction, its underlying causes and symptoms. What is sex addiction? According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine , sex addiction is a primary chronic disease. It’s described as a compulsive need to perform sexual acts in order to achieve a ‘fix’ that an alcoholic would receive from a glass of whiskey, or a drug addict from receive from...