“Persistent and escalating”, whether viewed as a disease or an impulse control problem, a norm violation or moral turpitude, HSD/IDO comes in various forms and shapes, old world and on-line. Having put a very organic, legal and necessary personal behavior into hyper drive, an afflicted individual is likely self-centered, greedy, obsessive, fantasy driven, indiscriminate, ultimately uncaring, and careless of personal health and others’ love, trust or rights, becoming involved in a frenzied, victorious, irresponsible, shameful, secretive pursuit.
Owing to a lack of medically valid evidence, HSD/IDO is not yet classified as a disease. The reluctance is also related to not having to validate irresponsibility, selfishness, moral turpitude, or serial infidelity.
HSD/IDO, an umbrella construct, covers a wide variety of problematic sexual behaviors: 1
Factors underlying HSD/IDO
It appears HSD/IDO is triggered by a wide variety of factors: 2
1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24001295
2 https://health.usnews.com/wellness/mind/articles/2017-02-01/4-strategies-for-sex-addicts-in-recovery-to-avoid-relapsing
3 https://www.addictionhope.com/sexual-addiction/
4 https://www.addictionhope.com/sexual-addiction/
5 Holly Daniels
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