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THE SEXUAL ADDICTION: when sex becomes addictive!

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Almost 4 million Italians are addicted to sex, work and play.
sexual addiction can be defined as "a sick relationship with sex that is intended to enable the person to relieve stress, to escape from negative or painful feelings, from intimate relationships that is not able to manage." This report becomes the need fundamental with respect to which everything else is sacrificed, including people who are considered only as objects to be used

Almost 4 million Italians are addicted to sex, work and play . He said the ADUC (Association for the Rights of Consumers and Users), based on findings from SIIPa.C, the Italian Society intervention compulsive disorders. It is true dependencies the same way as the more traditional drug and alcohol abuse. Are called "new addictions" and are characterized by being " dependencies without substance."
Work and sex are the most popular among Italians. The so-called "sex addiction" seems to be dominated by men.
In a study carried out by the ISP (Institute for the study of psychotherapy) found that over 6% of Italian men between 20 and 45 years with symptoms of sex addiction a clear showing "haunted" by ' idea of making love as often as possible and using every means imaginable.
The survey was conducted on a sample of 1,300 men, heterosexual, between 20 and 45 years on the basis of a diagnostic test American assessing the scale of dependence in males from the sexual act. The
sex addiction manifests itself like any other compulsive behavior that characterizes addiction: a radical change in the natural activities that bring rewards.
employees by sex are no longer able to control the feelings and activities geared to the sex, regardless of their health and safety.
But to make a clear distinction between a good and healthy relationship with sex and pathological is still very problematic.

sexual addiction can be defined as "sick with a report sex that is intended to enable the person to relieve stress, to escape from negative or painful feelings, from intimate relationships that is not able to manage. " This report becomes the fundamental need in relation to which everything else is sacrificed, including persons who are considered only as objects to be used.

The sex addiction usually occurs in stages:

1. concern about prospects for continued fantasies or sexual situations
2. ritualization : a type of sexual activity or situation is often stereotyped and repetitive
3. compulsion: unbridled sexual activity regardless of the negative consequences and desire to stop
4. despair guilt, remorse, shame for failing to control their own behavior
5. other behavioral problems, often related to drug addiction or eating disorders

Putting together the contributions of various authors is possible to outline a number of features that allow you to have an extensive and comprehensive overview of sexual addiction, most notably the increase, the extension and duration of behaviors that exceed what the person wants.

• inordinate increase in time spent in seeking sexual experiences, consumption or esseincremento recover from sexual activity as the current level of activity is no longer sufficient
• severe consequences due to sexual behavior
• inability to stop despite consequences
• growing desire or effort to control sexual behavior
• against neglect of important social, occupational

Many authors agree that the sex addiction operates on three levels.
First level: includes behavior is considered normal, acceptable or tolerable.

• obsessive masturbation
• have multiple partners
• have excessive sexual fantasies phone sex
• use pornography masochistic or sadistic behavior
• transvestite fetishism

Many employees who are at this level they believe they can control their behavior and consider that it will have consequences in their lives. Although this may also be devastating if implemented in a Complus

Second level: extends to those behaviors that are clearly victimizing and for which there are legal sanctions:

• exhibitionism voyeurism
• calls indecent behavior
• indecent sexual behavior in public places
• eg sexual harassment. to the workplace
• prostitution necrophilia

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Third level: the common element in the conduct of the third level is the violation some of the most significant social boundaries. Violence

  child molestation and incest
 sex with adults unconscious (eg drugs or persons under disability)
 ; sex with patients or employees
The presence of three levels does not mean that a person can not destroy their lives on the first level. It is also rare that a person implements compulsive sexual behavior of a single type.
Those addicted to sex sometimes have stories behind them of abuse at a young age, usually parents themselves are addicted to sex.
Stress plays a role as a major catalyst for compulsive sexual behavior, fueling feelings of abstinence and sexual fantasies.

The treatment of sex addiction generally involves the following steps:

1. awareness by the subject to have lost control in the sexual sexual abstinence commitment
3. reconstructions of human relations management
4. stress self-help

In any case, the main goals of therapy are designed to facilitate the development of a healthy capacity for intimacy with oneself and with others and to acquire adequate skills for managing problematic events that normally occur in a person's life.

Bibliography:
OATS F., 2009, Handbook on sexual addiction. Definition, diagnosis, intervention, Franco Angeli, Milano.
CARNES P., 1991, Do not call it love. Recovery from sexual addiction, Bantam, New York
LAMBIASE E., 2001, The Sexual Dependency. Clinical models and possible therapeutic intervention, Las, Roma
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