Hypersexual disorder

The new, more precise-sounding name for what used to be called ‘sex addiction’, the favourite self-diagnosis of celebrities caught enjoying intimate relations with persons other than their spouses. But who’s to say how much sex is too much?

One clinician argues that ‘Hypersexual disorder turns being a gay or bisexual male into a disease’

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