Suicidal Risk in Patients with Sex Addiction: Frequency, Sociodemographic, and Clinical Characteristics

Archives of Sexual Behavior Benoît Schreck, Eduardo Valenciano-Mendoza, Marianne Balem, Susana Jimenez-Murcia, Elsa Thiabaud, Solène Tillet, Anais Saillard, Yann Donnio, Marie Grall-Bronnec, Gaelle Challet-Bouju, 2025 Jun 12. doi: 10.1007/s10508-025-03167-6.     Abstract Sex addiction is characterized by a persistent pattern of failure to control intense and repetitive sexual urges, thus causing marked distress or impairment in important areas of functioning. Sex addiction may […]

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Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life

Startling excerpts from Kinsey bio

Alfred C. Kinsey is the father of today’s sexology profession. He purported to tell the world what healthy sexuality is. But what do we know about the health of his own sexuality? Prepare to be shocked. View a PDF of pages 609-611 from the chapter entitled “I hope the blinds were closed” in the meticulously-researched/documented […]

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ICD-11

World Health Organization’s ICD-11: Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder

This page describes the process which saw Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder accepted by the World Health Organization in ICD-11. See bottom of page for papers debating the classification of CSBD. Porn Addicts Are Diagnosable Using the WHO’s Diagnostic Manual (ICD-11) As you may have heard, in 2013 the editors of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual […]

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Studies falsify the claim that sex & porn addicts “just have high sexual desire”

Porn addiction naysayers often claim that individuals with either sex addiction or porn addiction do not have addiction, they simply have high sexual desire. David Ley (author of The Myth of Sex Addiction), is one of the most vocal critics of porn addiction, and often claims that “high sexual desire” explains away porn addiction. (Update: […]

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