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    If you don't find sex addictive, you're doing it wrong!

    Sex May Not Be Addictive

    Researchers found that there is no scientific evidence to support claim that hypersexuality is a mental disorder

    In recent years, people have blamed failed marriages, crumbling careers and shrinking bank accounts on sexual addiction – patterns of uncontrollable sexual behaviors that some say could stem from a person's brain chemistry. But a recent study from the University of California, Los Angeles challenges that idea, saying that there is no scientific evidence to classify such an addiction as a legitimate mental disorder.

    Researchers monitored the brain activity of 52 people who reported "having problems controlling their viewing of sexual images," in order to determine if there is a link between sexual addiction, or hypersexuality, and the way their brains responded to the images. The participants were shown pictures of anything from dismembered bodies, to people skiing, to people having sex – images that were chosen to specifically elicit "pleasant or unpleasant" feelings.
    For years most researchers believed that sex addicts have brain chemistry changes that resemble other addictions. If a person is addicted to sex, for example, their brain response to sexual stimuli would be higher than normal, similar to that of a drug addict to images of cocaine.
    But when researchers monitored the participants' brain activity on sexual stimuli they found no connection between differences in brain responses and hypersexuality.
    "Brain response was only related to the measure of sexual desire," said co-author Nicole Prause, in a statement. "In other words, hypersexuality does not appear to explain brain responses to sexual images any more than just having a high libido."
    The Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health estimates that 3 to 5 percent of the American population, or more than 9 million people, meet the criteria for this condition, which is associated with people who persistently engage in certain sexual behaviors – such as masturbation, prostitution, cyber sex or multiple affairs – despite negative consequences.

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    Default Re: Sex, Not Addictive...

    I think it's really the opiate-like substances in our brains. Naturally, most humans prefer pleasure to pain and things that are addicting like food, orgasms or sex, exercise, gambling, etc can create them. I think people are just addicted to feeling good be it sex or anything else deemed as addicting.




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    Default Re: Sex, Not Addictive...

    oh you can definitely get addicted to sex! all the dopamine and all the ecstacy you feel..and for some the closness..you can get addicted to anything!! thats just BS right there haha

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    Sometimes research is pretty fail lol.

    I would think pictures alone just don't get the response. That is like showing someone addicted to gambling at the track a picture of a horse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by invibe View Post
    Sometimes research is pretty fail lol.

    I would think pictures alone just don't get the response. That is like showing someone addicted to gambling at the track a picture of a horse.
    Goes in the "who the fu^%8 funds this stuff?" file to be sure.
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    Its free money. Taxpayer money. Everybody pays, nobody watches

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    ^ are we talking politics? If it wasn't such fun & additive to men, 98% of the women on this site wouldn't be able to pay their bills. A cock with money & free time is dangerous...lol on the research.

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    Speak for yourself..about addicktions


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    Quote Originally Posted by whirlerz View Post
    Speak for yourself..about addicktions
    I see what you did there!
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    Quote Originally Posted by invibe View Post
    Sometimes research is pretty fail lol.

    I would think pictures alone just don't get the response. That is like showing someone addicted to gambling at the track a picture of a horse.
    Actually, that is exactly what they do to see what part of the brain is firing to determine the addiction. Apparently showing an alcoholic a picture of a beer will have the same effect and the addictive response in the brain lights up like a christmas tree when even a photo of the addictive substance is presented to the addict.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tourdefranzia View Post
    Actually, that is exactly what they do to see what part of the brain is firing to determine the addiction. Apparently showing an alcoholic a picture of a beer will have the same effect and the addictive response in the brain lights up like a christmas tree when even a photo of the addictive substance is presented to the addict.
    I can tell you, my brain fires off on all cylinders when I see:



    But, my guess is they will find it's far more complex as it relates to human sexuality to classic addiction models.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Will View Post
    I can tell you, my brain fires off on all cylinders when I see:



    But, my guess is they will find it's far more complex as it relates to human sexuality to classic addiction models.
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    Default Re: Sex, Not Addictive...

    I don't think sex is exactly addictive but the high from an orgasm can be. So perhaps it's the great sensation of orgasmic bliss that people seek to have as much as possible. I personally love the feeling myself which makes camming a right fit for me That is when I'm in a private

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    Quote Originally Posted by safado View Post
    And remember, lifting weights makes women bulky and manly...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Will View Post
    And remember, lifting weights makes women bulky and manly...
    Bad news brah, I think you are wrong about that. I will see your Jamie Eason and raise you Eva Andressa.

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    Quote Originally Posted by safado View Post
    Bad news brah, I think you are wrong about that. I will see your Jamie Eason and raise you Eva Andressa.

    Yup, any time I compare a body that gets regular exercise via some resistance training (male or female) vs one that does not, it's no contest. Hence, all my GFs have been athletes of one type or another.
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    I saw that article earlier and I think that there's a basic flaw in the research. Sex is a basic drive, right? So just like we'd go through a lot to eat, we'd go through a lot to have sex. If at home all you could eat was rice cakes, and only a small amount of them so that you always felt hungry, the minute you got a chance to eat a really tasty meal you'd do it. If you were caught, smacked on the hands and thrown back into nothing but malnutrition and rice cakes again, you'd STILL go eat another tasty meal the second you could! Are you addicted to cheeseburgers? No. You've just got to eat and you're not getting fed enough or fed what you want while you're at home.

    If you haven't gotten the analogy yet, just put "sex environment at home" in for rice cakes and "sex that you really like" for tasty meal.

    Therefore! I think that there ARE some people who are addicted to sex. And I think that their brains WOULD light up the way we expect the brain of an addict to light up. However, I think the VAST majority of people who get diagnosed with sex addiction are normal people (perhaps with a high sex drive, if anything) who are putting barriers up in their own way or who have had barriers put up in their way to getting the sex they want. I think that the problem with these people isn't that they're addicts. They're not. They've got a problem in the way they're relating to their sexuality or they've got a problem in the way they and their partner interact sexually.

    Little kids sometimes eat clay.
    Straight identified men sometimes get anonymous head from dudes.

    Give the kid a multi-vitamin, you fix his mineral deficit and he's no longer driven to eat clay. Find that the straight-identified guy gets head from dudes because he's gay, closeted and married to a woman because his religion tells him he should be and...well...there's a long way to go from there, but you know that the reason he's been caught at the airport bathroom five times now isn't because he's an addict or a US senator.


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    Dang. I killed the thread. I was hoping that someone would want to discuss my idea.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Renton View Post
    Him: we could meet... im 5ft 9 sexy italian with a 8 inch love stick...imagine playing with me... how would you do it
    Me: I would cut off your dick and feed it to the pigs

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    Addiction is often an escape from reality, not just enjoyment of the activity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slowpoke View Post
    Addiction is often an escape from reality, not just enjoyment of the activity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IsobelWren View Post
    Dang. I killed the thread. I was hoping that someone would want to discuss my idea.
    The cheeseburger analogy works. There is also hormonal stuff, without being gross about it I notice a huge increase in my sex drive after a workout and other times of the day.

    As you were saying, taboo behavior carries a high risk/reward which is frequenty addictive all by itself.

    Pictures are nice but some of those people in the study are probably more like me. Show me a cheeseburge when I am hungry and I will be more hungry, put a cheeseburger in front of me where I can smell it and see it in real life and I will b fixated on it lol.

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