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Sex Addiction To Be Formally Recognised As A Psychiatric Illness by deolascope: 1:40am On Mar 14, 2011
Sex addiction might have once been seen as an excuse for high profile philanderers, but the condition is about to become formally recognised as a psychiatric disorder. The ‘addiction’, in which sufferers have relentless sexual urges that feel out of one’s control, is being discussed by experts for inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Re: Sex Addiction To Be Formally Recognised As A Psychiatric Illness by MaiSuya(m): 12:55pm On Mar 16, 2011
Nonsense! the criteria are just too vague to merit, in my view, any consideration for entry in to DSM. How, pray, do begin to qualify sexual urge as excessive?

Those eggheads should rather focus on the more serious mental ailments.

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