Yes, you can be addicted to sex.Unlike other addiction sex addiction is not harmful for your body shall resist excessive sex activity being indulged in continuously.Ancient wisdom in India declares that it may dilute your interests in other activities ,but no physical adverse effects as in other cases like drinking.Possibly the emotional attitude to sex may have to be channelized to improve other activity.
Intense sex activity and satisfaction is directly proportional to emotional build up.In short increased sex activity is not harmful excepting in cases where it involves accompanying guilt feelings and social stigma.
Can you be addicted to sex?
Nobody really knows for sure–though you can certainly get treated for sex addiction if you think you have it.
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Last year, X-Files and Californication star David Duchovny checked into rehab for sexual addiction. After a string of women went public with claims they were mistresses of golfer Tiger Woods (the best-paid athlete on the planet and a married man), it took only days for talking heads to speculate that Woods might be an addict and need rehab.
The idea of sex as a drug is deeply seductive to journalists and reality TV producers. But the idea of being addicted to sex is actually quite controversial. No such diagnosis is even recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), psychiatry’s Bible.
The DSM-IV assiduously avoids the word “addiction,” preferring to talk about dependence, withdrawal and compulsion. A new condition, called hypersexuality, might be something close, but some psychiatrists bristle at the idea of talking about human sexuality as an addictive force unto itself.
“I don’t buy it as a disease … it is an excuse,” says John J. Lucas, a forensic psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College. In modern society, “we have an unfortunate practice of proliferating illnesses … in response to various practices in terms of reducing the stigma of certain behaviors.”
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/sex-addiction-science-lifestyle-health-tiger-woods.html
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