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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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