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| Sexual Dependency | Scientists in the field of addictions are currently denoting that about 3-6% of the world’s population are now affected by a sexual dependency or compulsivity. You have to know that sexual dependency is a diagnosable and treatable disease, which today is common, regarded in about the same way that alcoholism and drug addiction (chemical dependency) was regarded 40 years ago. Nonetheless, there still exists a wide range of comprehensible misunderstandings about compulsive sexual acting out, created out of lack of knowledge about the nature of sexual addiction, and supported by the multibillion dollar pornography industry.
Sexual Dependency - is an international term that defines a wide range of maladaptive and self-defeating behavior patterns and relationships like:
 Love Addiction – a disorder in which people frequently become involved in enmeshed, intense, codependent relationships, even when those relationships or partners are unhelpful.
Romance Addiction – a disorder in which people become fanatical with the intrigue and the chase of romance and prosper on the thrill of the chase, but find it impossible to maintain a committed, intimate relationship with another person.
Sexual Anorexia – a disorder in which individuals become dominated and obsessed with the emotional, physical, and mental task of avoiding sex.
Sex Addiction – a disorder in which individuals become obsessed with sexually-related, compulsive self-defeating maladaptive behavior.
But can one really be addicted to love so much? In a recent research study, researchers used functional MRI to observe the real-time brain activity of 17 students (10 women, 7 men), all of whom were in the early weeks or months of new love. This study concluded that, love may compete for the same real estate in the brain as drug addiction. Early love, rooted as it is in the caudate nucleus, is all about addiction. It is positively got some of the main characteristics of drug addiction – as with drugs, once you fall in love you need that person more and more, so much so that, after a while, you have to marry them. There are other things, too – real dependence, personality changes, and withdrawal symptoms. And just like the need for cocaine or heroin, love can make people do crazy, sometimes hazardous things.
But, please, don’t think that all people who are newly in love have an addiction, all men who look at pornography are addicted, that all women who read romance are novels addicted and that all people who avoid sex are considered sexual anorexics.
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