HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sexual Addiction, Hypersexuality, Voyeurism
11 Apr 2018
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Peele: anything single thing can be addictive, any behaviour with or without substance involved, if that behaviour has a a ect on how an individual feels, to any experience modi es mood, using experiences to achieve desired states of being. Problematically, they rely on one source of grati cation: rejected disease model, but people who felt empty or insecure more inclined. Shit to behavioural addictions required conceptual change: substance itself not the problem, but intense and rigid relationship with substance. Sex the rst behaviour addiction to attract substantial attention. 18-19th century sexual matters become concern of medical science, not simply religion. Satyriasis: excessive sexual desire without impulse control, could lead to sexual violence: causes: brain disease, erotic ction, sedentary lifestyle, aphrodisiacs, celibacy. Onanism: both cause and disease itself (masturbation) Modern sex addiction emerges in 1970s, when boston aa member discovered it: masturbation, impersonal sex, emotional dependency, and marital a airs as manifestation of sex and love addiction.
