Sex Addiction

You've seen the title of this episode, so now that we have your attention: sex addiction! What are the psychometric criteria by which sex becomes an addiction? Further, who does this impact? The answers to this are both not what you might think. Turns out, there is a lot of history of "puritan"-like stigmatization around the "appropriate" amount of sex and with whom. 

Links and References: 

1. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22690-sex-addiction-hypersexuality-and-compulsive-sexual-behavior
2. https://www.sexaddict.com/six-types-of-sex-addicts/
3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3960064/
4. https://sexualhealthalliance.com/nymphomedia-blog/a-brief-history-of-sex-addiction
5. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-012-9136-3
6. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201510/who-is-the-real-father-sex-addiction
7. https://azri.org/sex-addiction/what-are-the-different-types-of-sex-addictions/
8. https://www.news-medical.net/health/Sexual-Dysfunction-History.aspx

Recommendations

• Abraham: Fallout (https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Season-1/dp/B0CN4HV16N)
• Shane: Dracula by Bram Stoker (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula)

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