Anthony Weiner and Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sex Disorder or Just Bad Behavior
The Anthony Wiener and Arnold Schwarzenegger sex scandals have had everyone in the media buzzing lately. After all, this is the stuff gossip columns and the evening news live for. It’s interesting how some professionals and news broadcasters have tried to raise the possibility that these sexual indiscretions are the results of an addiction or psychological problem. Perhaps there’s something to that, but the very idea is causing a big stir in its own right.
Sexual addiction? How about simple horniness and lack of control? That seems to be the question on a lot of people’s minds.
Wherever the truth may lie, it appears there is a new term for infidelity and out of control sex. It’s called
hypersexual disorder. While hypersexual disorder may soon be on the books as a bona fide psychological disorder, many people still view it as just an excuse for bad behavior.
What exactly is hypersexual disorder?Just this year in 2010, the American Psychiatric Association released preliminary criteria to help define sex addiction or hypersexual disorder. It can only be diagnosed in adults older than 18 years. Here are the symptoms that can be viewed at the American Psychiatric Association’s website:
Hypersexual DisorderA. Over a period of at least six months, recurrent and intense sexual fantasies, sexual urges, and sexual behavior in association with four or more of the following five criteria:
- Excessive time is consumed by sexual fantasies and urges, and by planning for and engaging in sexual behavior.
- Repetitively engaging in these sexual fantasies, urges, and behavior...
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