Compulsive Sex

Question 1

Sexual Dysfunction

Answer 1

focus on
inhibition of sexual response and
inhibition of sexual desire

Question 2

Nymphomania

Answer 2

insatiable impulse of a
woman to engage in an abnormal number of sexual contacts with an abnormal number of partners with no deep emotional involvement

Question 3

Satyriasis

Answer 3

excessive uncontrolled

sexual activity by a man with little or no emotional involvement

Question 4

Sexual Compulsivity

Answer 4

1. Focus has been sexist - largely on women
2. “Promiscuity”
3. Characterological complex
4. Frequency of normal sexual behavior on a continuum

Question 5

Paraphilia

Answer 5

recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies generally involving either:

1. Non-human objects
2. Suffering or humiliation of oneself or one’s partner (non-simulated)
3. Children or other non-consenting persons

Question 6

Voyeuristic Disorder

Answer 6

• peeping tom

- sexual arousal from observing an unsuspecting person who is naked

Question 7

Exhibitionism

Answer 7

• sexual arousal from the exposure of one’s genitals to an unsuspecting person
• either prepubertal or adults

Question 8

Fetishism

Answer 8

sexual arousal from the use of nonliving objects or a high focus on nongenital body parts

Question 9

Frotteurism

Answer 9

sexual arousal from touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person

Question 10

Pedophilia

Answer 10

Sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children

Question 11

Sexual Sadism

Answer 11

Sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving acts in which psychological or physical suffering of the victim

Question 12

Sexual Masochism

Answer 12

Sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving acts of being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer

Question 13

Transvestite Fetishism

Answer 13

intense sexual arousal from crossdressing, as manifested by fantasies, urges, or behaviors

Question 14

Nonparaphilic Sexual Addictions

Answer 14

culturally accepted sexual interests & behaviors that
increase in frequency or intensity so as to significantly
interfere with the desired capacity for a sustained
intimate sexual relationship

• Includes
  1. Compulsive Masturbation
  2. Dependence on anonymous sexual outlets like pornography or phone sex
  3. Repetitive promiscuity using people as sex objects

Question 15

Alternative Labeling

Answer 15

1. Failure to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform some act that is harmful
2. Increasing sense of tension or arousal before committing the act
3. Experience pleasure, gratification, or release at time of committing the act

Question 16

Normal Sexual Behavior

Answer 16

• 2 orgasms/week

* 3 orgasms/week

Question 17

Hypersexual Desire

Answer 17

7 or more orgasms/week for minimum 12 weeks, after age 15

Question 18

Non Paraphilic Sexual Addiction

Answer 18

8.4 orgasms/week

Question 19

Toxic Effects

Answer 19

A. AIDS-HIV
B. Disruption of social & occupational functioning
C. Progression to paraphilia - gateway hypothesis
D. Progression to violent sexual behavior

Question 20

Addiction Cycle

Answer 20

A. Preoccupation – Separate Cycle
B. Ritualization – “Line” or “Spot”
C. Compulsive Sexual Behavior –
“Intoxication”
D. Despair – “Withdrawal”

Question 21

Underregulation- Strength

Answer 21

a. Chronic Weakness (lack of willpower)
b. Temporary Weakness-negative
affective states
c. Externally-Mediated Weaknessunlimited
access

Question 22

Underregulation-Reduction in Monitoring

Answer 22

a. Attention directed to immediate cues
i. Preoccupation stage- chase
ii. Ritualization stage - trance
b. Transcendence failure
c. Disinhibition- compulsive sexual
behavior accompanied by alcohol use

Question 23

Underregulation- Psychological Inertia

Answer 23

a. “A body undressing stays undressing”

b. Development of automatic behaviors

Question 24

Misregulation-Irrational or Faulty Beliefs

Answer 24

a. Mislabeling of relationships

b. Sexually obsessive filter

Question 25

Misregulation- Distortion in Self-Knowledge

Answer 25

a. Misplaced self-confidence

b. Investment of self-value into short-term conquests

Question 26

10 Signs of Sexual Addiction

Answer 26

1. A pattern of out of control sexual behavior
2. Severe consequences
3. Inability to stop despite consequences
4. Persistent pursuit of self-destructive or high-risk behavior
5. On-going desire or effort to limit sexual behavior
6. Sexual obsession & fantasy as a primary coping strategy
7. Increasing amounts of sexual experiences
8. Severe mood changes around sexual activity
9. Inordinate amounts of time spent in obtaining sex, being
   sexual, or recovering from sexual experience
10. Neglect of important social, occupational, or recreational
    activities

Question 27

Tolerance

Answer 27

Increasing amouts of sexual experiences

Question 28

Withdrawal

Answer 28

-Sexual obsession and fantasy as a
primary coping strategy
-Severe mood changes around sexual activity

Question 29

Larger amounts

Answer 29

Ongoing effort to limit sexual behavior

Question 30

Impaired control

Answer 30

Inability to stop despite

adverse consequences

Question 31

Time spent

Answer 31

Inordinate amounts of time spent in obtaining sex

Question 32

Neglect of activities

Answer 32

Neglect of important social, occupational, or recreational activities

Question 33

Continued use despite problems

Answer 33

• Severe consequences due to sexual behavior
• Inability to stop despite adverse consequences
• Persistent pursuit of self-destructive behavior