A new study suggests that sex addiction may work a lot like drug addiction in the brain. There’s been a long debate about whether compulsive sexual behavior – including frequent thoughts about sex, having sex, or watching pornography – really falls into the family of addictions. It was recently rejected for inclusion in the DSM-V, so right now it’s not technically a disorder. But the authors of the new study report that the same areas of the brain involved in drug addiction are activated when “sex addicts” watch sexually explicit films. So maybe it’s not so separate from addiction after all.
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