However, a majority of people experience difficulties in these stages of the sexual experience.
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Love addiction can even refer to someone having unrealistic expectations of family or friends.
This supports the idea that sex addiction has a similar physiological and psychological process as other addictions.
Sex addiction causes a great deal of distress to those affected and their loved ones.
Sexual desire and expression in people with sex addictions are commonly reported to be unmanageable and unpleasant.
At present, few readily accessible addiction services provide help for people with sex addiction.
Recognition of sex addiction can allowsex addiction treatmentto be included in community addiction services.
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As such, the concept of sex addiction can be used by people with a political and/or religious agenda.
The argument is that these are moral rather than clinical arguments.
The psychiatric community has been hesitant to acknowledge excessive sexuality, in and of itself, as a disorder.
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