Essay - Sexual Addiction Results from an Abuse of the Natural Sex...

Sexual Addiction results from an abuse of the natural sex drive that each person is born with. The ***** can start at any time in life and then progresses until it becomes a compulsion ***** the sexually addicted ***** *****not cope with. ***** sexual addiction eventually affects every part of ***** person's life, including self-respect, rel*****ionships ***** family and friends, and finances and career. It is a fix that the sexually addicted person will do just about anything to get, and usually hurt themselves in the process. Sexual addiction is a d*****ease and nothing fun or romantic depicted in the movies is true.

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F***** approximately 3-6% ***** ***** population (Gold, 1998, p. 367) the concept of sex brings forward feelings of dread, neglect, guilt, and so on. They feel out of c*****trol when it comes to *****, wanting to s*****p the regular prowl but continuously find *****mselves at peep shows, strip joints, in chat rooms and on the corner picking up prostitutes. Sex addicti***** can manifest itself in many forms, from the person who ***** online 5-7 hours a day, searching for pornography and talking about sex in all sorts ***** chat rooms, to the *****ing tom that lives across the street and watches you change in ***** even*****g. But how does this behavior arise? What causes these people to lose control of a basic human instinct? The theories on *****ual addiction are many, ranging ***** biological causes to socio-cultural influences. This paper ***** focus on Freud's theory of sexual addiction as it relates ***** sexual development and ********** upon a cert*****in stage.

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The ***** ***** confusing and has only become part ***** psychologists' vocabulary in the past 50 years. The term was first used by Freud who had referred to masturbation as "***** primal addiction" from which ***** other addictive disorders derive (Goodman, 1998, p. 101). *****ual addiction is *****ever, a controversial concept. A single definition of the disorder h***** yet to be formed. Some refer ***** it as an ***** following the Diagnostic *****d Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders released by the American Psychiatric Association. (DSM-IV, 1994, p. 201)

Sexual addiction is often conf***** w*****h a high sex drive. This conception is wrong and it is important to understand that a ***** with a high sex ***** is actually satisfied ***** sex however the sex addict needs ***** to medicate his feelings and ***** be able to cope with stresses in life. ***** sex addict spends much ***** ***** pursuit ***** find a w*****y to satisfy t***** intense hunger. The debate over ********** sexually compulsive *****havior is an ********** or a psychosexual, obsessive-***** behavior d*****order is ongoing.

When sex be***** an addiction, the individual may use *****, masturbation, f*****tasy, or other sexual behavior to satisfy his needs. Further, this addiction interferes with their *****day *****, to include finances, intimate relationships, c*****ers and self-esteem. (Earle, 1995, pp. 46-99). Sexual addiction can be divided into different categories, to include paraphilic compulsive sexual ***** and nonparaphilic