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Is Sexual Addiction Real?

Posted on September 30, 2008

Pages: 1 2 Next Single Page When a new TV seasons starts up and one of the hit shows is about sex addiction, suddenly everyone is focused on sexual addiction. Look, a new disorder! Look, David Duchovny actually has it! Like most other compulsive behavioral conditions, sexual addiction is not recognized as a real disorder by the psychiatric diagnostic book, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM). However, unlike most other behavioral compulsions, sexual addiction does have a fairly rich and long research history (over 550 citations ap...

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