Is sex like an addiction?

[lunarcapricorn.livejournal.com]

Do some people really NEED sex? Like they can't function without it?

I would like to have a sex-less relationship, but I've noticed that when we go without for a while, my boyfriend gets more determined to have sex. He starts making dirty comments/jokes, grabbing me, touching me more, etc. He's not the nice man I know, he gets scary. Sometimes I really have to fight him off.

I don't understand it because I can go forever without. Do some people just NEED to have sex?

Comments

[eatmorepi.livejournal.com]

Sex is a good way to release tension, so when it's absent I think it can really throw people off. It also definitely releases endorphins and can be very relaxing. Not to mention it's very close and intimate. Many people really like to have sex (a lot) and your boyfriend sounds like one of them.

He sounds a bit selfish though, he shouldn't be acting "scary" about it. It sounds like you need to go talk about it.

Another thing - sexual addiction is a form of serious addiction that requires treatment just like alcoholism and drug addiction. If your boyfriend had a serious sexual addiction, I'm of the impression that he would be trying to find sex any way he could - meaning outside your relationship.

[eclare.livejournal.com]

sexual addiction does not just imply requiring sexual contact - it tends to include needing sex often and from lots of different partners to the point where an individual is putting their health and lives at risk by having sex with people they don't know, who's STI status they don't know, often falling in with potentially violent partners, using illegal drugs and blacking out. The sex itself isn't the danger or even the addiction, so much as the pattern of (as Dr. Drew would put it) chaos in a person's life.