Sex Addiction on The Rise Among Women

Men are often highlighted by the pleasures of the things that are pornographic. Not even a little of those who experience sexual addiction to be in therapy. But now times had changed. The women also suffer from sex addiction.

Women spend hours online looking at things that are looking for pornography or sex. Some fantasize about being “played” in public. Others, cruise to meet with strangers. Little is known about the prevalence of sexual addiction in women, but psychologists say the phenomenon is real and it’s just that now he is getting lots of attention, Friday (6 / 1).

“We see women get into things that are pornographic in a way that we have never seen before,” says psychologist and sex addiction research pioneer, Dr. Patrick Carnes, who is also an executive director at Pine Grove Behavioral Centerdi Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a place where Tiger Woods reportedly seeking treatment.

“Women are involved in the affair, they engage in sado-masochistic behavior (sexual deviance),” Carnes said. “This is only a gradual change that lies before us”.

“We see the biggest change in human sexuality may be in the history of our species.”

According to Carnes, sex addiction is estimated to hit as much as 3-6 percent of the population and is defined as the passionate with sexual fantasies, impulses and behavior that can not be controlled or stopped, regardless of the consequences.

Profound embarrassment makes women refrain from seeking relief in the same proportion as men, says Penny Lawson, creator of sexual addiction treatment program at Bellwood Health Services in Toronto. As a result, women do not tend to come forward and said, “I need help,” said Lawson.

According to Lawson, the Internet has created an unimaginable sexual access, anonymity, and romance. Or at least the illusion of a relationship. Some women spend hours online in chat rooms that connect it with men. Sex really dominate their lives.

Some women have chronic affairs, some involved in the practice of exhibitionism and sexual practices are harmful. Others spend all their time in a fantasy without ever acting.

According to American Community of addiction treatment, addiction essentially brain disease. In the newly released definition of addiction, addiction results from the public say dysfunctional circuits in specific brain regions that control reward, motivation, and memory.

Addiction is defined by passion, the increasing “hunger” for drugs or valuable experience – and the inability to stop the behavior despite the consequences are devastating.

In a 2006 article on sexual addiction, Carnes described how women take a lot of male behavior, including the level of aggressiveness in approaching prospective sex partners. This may be a shift in cultural mores or sexual.

Other researchers say that women are less motivated by power, and often hurt, anxiety or despair. According to Lawson, childhood trauma appears to play a major role, as well as genetic vulnerability to other addictions. Women who are struggling with compulsive sexual behavior often have an introduction that is not appropriate or too early to the idea of ​​sex.

“It could have been sexual abuse of a family member, neighbor, or someone in the community,” said Lawson.