IS SEXUAL ADDICTION THE REAL DEAL?

Is Sexual Addiction The Real Deal?

Controversy exists over what some mental health experts call "hypersexuality," or sexual "addiction." Namely, is it a mental disorder at all, or something else?

It failed to make the cut in the recently updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, considered the bible for diagnosing mental disorders.

Yet sex addiction has been blamed for ruining relationships, lives and careers.

Now, for the first time, UCLA researchers have measured how the brain behaves in so-called hypersexual people who have problems regulating their viewing of sexual images.

 

The study found that the brain response of these individuals to sexual images was not related in any way to the severity of their hypersexuality but was instead tied only to their level of sexual desire.

 

In other words, hypersexuality did not appear to explain brain differences in sexual response any more than simply having a high libido, said senior author Nicole Prause, a researcher in the department of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

 

"Potentially, this is an important finding," Prause said. "It is the first time scientists have studied the brain responses specifically of people who identify as having hypersexual problems."

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http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/news/is-sexual-addiction-the-real-deal/18724 

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JEWISH MAN BREAKS RANK ON CIRCUMCISION.

Me But Not My Son:

A Young Jewish Man Breaks Rank on Circumcision.

 

 

When I found out I was circumcised, I was horrified.

I was in second grade when I first heard about circumcision.

A group of boys at school were talking about it. I walked into the middle of the conversation.

At this point, I knew some penises looked different than others, but had assumed it was just one more way people were naturally different, like hair or eye colour.

One of the boys accused the Jews of circumcising their babies.

I was the only Jew at my school so I felt I had to defend my people.

How could a religion of tikun olam do something destructive to their newborns?

The scariest part for me, then, was thinking this might have been done to me.

I couldn’t believe my parents would have done this, so I told the other boys there was no way Jews did this to their newborns and that I wasn’t circumcised.

I didn’t find out I was wrong until sometime later.

One day, my dad pointed to the table in my house where it had happened to me and talked about it.

He seemed proud but he might have been joking.

After he told me, I ran to my room crying. My mom comforted me.

Before this, I had felt proud of being perfect, unaltered.

Now I knew I had been changed.

Somehow, I still couldn’t fully understand or accept what had happened.

I put it out of my mind and “forgot.”

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http://www.beyondthebris.com/2012/03/me-but-not-my-son-young-jewish-man.html 

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