Soft mild : "Sex addiction, Mental Disorders?"

Problem of sex addiction is still a debate to the experts. Some argue that it happened because someone can not control the libido. However, some experts say that sex addiction is a form of mental disorder.

Experts argue, something that is not compulsive and irresistible nature can be dangerous. That's why sex addiction, like alcoholism or drug abuse, need to get professional treatment.

However, mental health experts do not agree if the behavior was categorized as a sex addiction a mental disorder. Therefore, the latest edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, a kind of "holy book" of psychiatry, addiction to sex is not mentioned in the categories of addiction behavior.

"Not to mention a lot of empirical evidence for sex addiction in those categories," said Dr Martin P Kafka, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

However, it was opposed by the therapists. "We have handled cases of sexual addiction for more than 20 years," says Douglas Weiss, a psychologist and director of counseling centers in the United States.

Further, Weiss explains the difference between someone with a big sex drive and sex addict. "People who want a high libido and emotional relationships to find satisfaction every time intercourse. Meanwhile, a sex addict only wants to satisfy his desire. They are not looking for intimacy, even they do not feel 'there' when to do it," he explained.

According to Kafka, there is a clinical definition that must be met to mention addictive behavior as a sex addict, and it is not filled from addictive sexual behavior. For example, people are addicted to sex did not have intercourse to get the same effect as in a drug addict.

It differs from a drug addict or gambling addict who does not have a biological drive, like eating, sleeping, or sex. "We all want to eat and want to have sex. In other words, it is difficult to say a behavior related to basic human needs as an addiction," says Kafka.

In the study of psychiatry, people are addicted to doing something on a biological impulse is not called an addict. For example, people who eat compulsively referred to as bulimia, not eating enthusiast. That's why now being searched for a new category for HiperSeks disorders in psychiatric diagnostic manual.