{"id":13962,"date":"2020-01-16T07:38:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/?p=13962"},"modified":"2024-09-26T00:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T22:08:35","slug":"is-sex-addiction-really-about-high-sex-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/is-sex-addiction-really-about-high-sex-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Does a High Sex Drive Equal a Sex Addiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s no doubt that some people suffer because of their sexual behaviour, and that they have sex in ways that are unhealthy and harmful to them or their friends and family (like spending all their income on sex workers, getting fired from their jobs for masturbating, or continually cheating on partners they promised <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/monogamy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">monogamy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the professional community is still deeply divided over the cause for such behaviour. Is it the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">amount<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of sex that they crave and engage in, or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the way<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in which they do and feel about it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before we take a look at some studies and other interesting data to figure this whole thing out, here are a few key definitions that may help you to really understand what high sex drive and addiction really means.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sex Drive aka Libido<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Libido refers to someone\u2019s overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity. So one could have a high, low, or -what is perceived to be- an average libido depending on their desires for sexual contact.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is a High Sex Drive\/Libido?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A high sex drive (or high libido) can be hard to characterise, and may actually depend on what you perceive it to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, perhaps <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/dealing-with-mismatched-libidos\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your partner has a lower or very low sex drive, which in turn, may lead to you believe that you have an extremely high one<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternatively, you could ask yourself questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/how-much-sex-is-too-much\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does a \u2018normal\u2019 sex drive look like<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How are my desires different to my expectations?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I feel after masturbating, watching porn, and thinking about and engaging in sex?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of the day, one\u2019s sex drive can be high without causing an interference in their daily life, and without causing any harm to themselves and those around them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Generally Speaking) What is an Addiction?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/addiction\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merriam-Webster<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, addiction is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201ca compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behaviour, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects, and typically well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adversely, it may be interesting to know what a low<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0sex drive<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> looks like, otherwise known as \u2018hypoactive sexual desire disorder\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychiatry.org\/psychiatrists\/practice\/dsm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DSM-5 (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> used by professionals), a low sex drive is known as hypoactive sexual desire disorder. It\u2019s characterised by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201crecurrently deficient sexual or erotic thoughts, fantasies, and desires for sexual acitivity.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It too says that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cthese symptoms must have persisted for a minimum of six months, and they must cause clinically significant distress\u201d.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But let\u2019s jump back to the question of high sex drives and sex addiction\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is a Sex Addiction?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sex addiction is known as \u2018hypersexuality\u2019. This is usually characterised by one or more of the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A tendency to obsess over sex<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacrificing professional, social, or personal time for sexual activity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having (or pursuing) compulsive sexual urges<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking sexual risks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experiencing or causing physical and or emotional pain due to sexual behaviour<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High Sex Drive &amp; Sex Addiction: Are They One in the Same?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most people automatically assume that sex addiction has to do with\u2014at least to some extent\u2014having a really high sex drive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And interestingly, proponents of the sex addiction model traditionally include a measure of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/how-to-guide-for-multiple-orgasming-during-masturbation\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">too many orgasms<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as one criterion for designating someone as addicted to sex. (The most commonly used cutoff point in these models is remarkably low\u2014only seven per week! This would would classify almost half of all men and a substantial minority of women as sex addicts.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But evidence keeps piling up that sex addiction has little to do with high sex drive. In an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/0092623X.2015.1113585?journalCode=usmt20\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">online survey conducted in 2014<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, almost 2,000 Croatian men ages 18-60 reported on their general sex drive (like how intense their sexual desire was in a typical week or how much time they spent engaging in sexual fantasies and activities in a typical day).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They too commented on problematic sexuality (using screening tools based on the sex addiction model and answering questions about using sex to cope with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/make-sure-stress-doesnt-doom-bedroom\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">negative emotions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, feeling unable to control their sexuality, engaging in sex in spite of harmful consequences, and distress and shame associated with their sexual behaviors).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It turned out that the men who scored high on problematic sexuality (about 3% of the sample) were not the same men who scored very high on just plain old sex drive (about 4% of the sample): Only 4 out of 2,000 men fell into both groups!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s more, the \u2018problematic sexuality\u2019 group actually proved to be <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">less<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sexually active than the \u2018high sex drive\u2019 group, aka they had sex less frequently, with fewer sexual partners, and watched porn less often. They even had less sex and fewer partners than the \u2018control\u2019 group of men, those who had neither high sex drive nor problematic sexuality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2018problematic sexuality\u2019 guys also differed from the control group in a number of personality, health, and demographic traits that helped understand their underlying issues. They were more likely to be religious, depressed, to have substance abuse problems, to disapprove of watching porn, and to feel like their sexuality was against their moral values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2018high sex drive\u2019 guys, on the other hand, were, unsurprisingly, more sexually active and more accepting of porn use than the control group, but were virtually indistinguishable from the \u2018controls\u2019 in all other characteristics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These results confirmed past findings that the more religious a person was and the more he or she believed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/is-porn-addictive\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">watching porn was wrong<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the more likely they were to think of themselves as a porn addict, regardless of how much porn they actually watched.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A separate study, which looked at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24519108\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the correlation between the amount of porn watched daily and psychological distress<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (one year later) is also important to mention. This study proved that there was no link between the two, and that it\u2019s the mere belief that one is addicted to porn that caused depression, anxiety, stress, and anger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taken together, these findings suggest that \u2018sex addiction\u2019 or \u2018hypersexual disorder\u2019 is not at all about how often you think about sex, how often you have sex, or how many different people you have sex with.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sex drive, like many other human traits, follows a bell-shaped, \u2018normal\u2019 distribution: some people are extremely low, some people are extremely high, and most people are somewhere in between. Where you are on that spectrum is greatly determined by your genes and hormones, and, in actuality, no point along that spectrum is inherently unhealthy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather, having sex-related problems or identifying as a sex or porn addict seems to be either:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about using sex to cope with depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about having sexual thoughts and behaviors that go against your morality or that of your loved ones<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The truth is, we\u2019re still prone to a society that can be sex-negative. This negativity teaches us that having a lot of sex, a lot of sexual partners, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/casual-sex-and-poor-mental-health\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">casual sex,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> nonmonogamous sex, or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/kinky-sex-four-steps-sensational-stimulation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kinky sex<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is bad or unhealthy. It\u2019s all too easy to internalize these views and feel like there\u2019s something wrong with us if we have such desires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But instead of automatically worrying about how much sex you are craving or having, consider why and how you\u2019re doing it, and why you feel the way you do about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes, dealing with the fear of sex or porn addiction is as straightforward as adopting a more <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/how-focusing-on-the-positive-can-lead-to-better-sex\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sex positive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> set of values and finding more supportive friends, partners, and community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This may be easier said than done, but for those with particularly high sex drives, such acceptance can be paramount for living a healthy and happy life that is also authentic and true to who you really are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/can-addicted-vibrator\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can You Actually Get Addicted to Your Vibrator?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/can-you-be-addicted-to-love\/\">Can You Be Addicted To Love?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/interview-with-a-male-sex-addict\/\">Interview with a Male Sex Addict<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Discover pleasure with:<\/h4>\n<p>[carousel_slide id=&#8217;43517&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no doubt that some people suffer because of their sexual behaviour, and that they have sex in ways that are unhealthy and harmful to them or their friends and family (like spending all their income on sex workers, getting fired from their jobs for masturbating, or continually cheating on partners they promised monogamy to). 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