Female hypersexuality pt 2

Hello steemians!
Am quite sure you had a wonderful day. Yesterday, I started the talk on female hypersexuality and am sure you learnt a lot from what female hypersexuality means. Today I'll tell you the causes, treatment, complications, signs and symptoms of female hypersexuality.

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CAUSES OF FEMALE HYPERSEXUALITY

Why most cases of hypersexuality are of psychological origin, there are also a few medical conditions that have been found to cause the condition. For the majority of cases, hypersexuality is often the result of a combination of both psychological and medical factors.

They include....
PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES

1. Bipolar disorder: is a mental disorder where an individual alternates between being depressed and being super but abnormally excited and energetic (a condition known as mania). People with mania have been found to experience abnormal high sex drives. They can have sex with anything, I tell you.

2. Early exposure to sexual contents: such as pornography or exhibitionism or even the engagement in sexual acts itself. Acts of sex are often associated with the release of dopamine, the hormone which is responsible for the feelings of pleasure/reward. I mentioned it earlier.
   So at such an early age, one can eventually become so engrossed with sex due to the dopamine release associated with it such that it becomes an addiction.
   3.Lack of self-esteem: some people become sex addicts because they want to prove that they too can attract and seduce attractive men and have loads of fun/sex. To them, they have come to associate sex and having loads of males around them as an achievement and something worthy of giving their attention to.

3. Sexual abuse: if you were sexually abuse as a child or teenager, then the risk that you may develop hypersexuality or some other form of sexual deviancy is disproportionately increased. If you were sexually abused as a young girl and you are suffering from hypersexuality, then the reason may likely be attributed to that sexual abuse. Same thing happens to boys. Some men, who get abused or raped in their early ages, become addicted to sex and this can plague them into their adult lives.

MEDICAL CAUSES

1. Dementia: is a chronic brain disease that is characterized by loss of cognitive function- the individual loses her or his ability to think and remember things. Beyond loss of cognitive function, people with dementia have been found to display mad sexual urge and cravings. So if your fifty or sixty-something years old mom or father or you yourself has been displaying or exhibiting insane sex urge accompanied by loss of cognitive function (forgetfulness, poor sense of judgment, etc) then you may want to start suspecting Dementia as a possible culprit.

2.Adrenal tumors: these are tumors of the adrenal gland (a special structure in the brain) which is one of the production house of male sex hormones (androgens). So when the cells of the gland start growing inappropriately and excessively, the resultant consequence is an increase in the level of male sex hormone (testosterone) beyond its normal level.

Mind you, women, too, have testosterone, but it is tightly regulated. Testosterone is one hormone responsible for libido in both males and females.
3.Rabies: yes, rabies, too, has been found to cause intense, uncontrollable and unrelenting increase in sexual urge. In fact, the intensity of the sexual urge is now used to measure the deadliness of the rabies.

For the sake of information, rabies is a viral infection caused by the rabies virus often spread through dog bites. And it is also true that rabies patients, when their symptoms are very severe, tend to bark like dogs!

DRUGS/MEDICATIONS

1. Cocaine: cocaine affects the same brain center responsible for sexual pleasure. This is the reason why cocaine addicts engage in very risk sexual behaviours, some of them even violent and tending towards the diabolical.
   2.Sex performace-enhancing drugs: these drugs are known to enhance libido and improve sexual performance in not only males but females too. There is something called female Viagra.
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So it happens that, if you consume these drugs recklessly and you become sexually excited, you can be pushed to solicit for sex in a manner that is abnormal for you, assuming you didn't know you are not under the influence of the drug. *So, while these drugs do not directly cause hypersexuality, they can cause someone who is not very disciplined to exhibit hypersexual behaviours under the right circumstances.there are a couple of more drugs but the two mentioned above are the commonest.

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF HYPERSEXUALITY

1. An inability to contain sexual urges and respect the boundaries of others involved in the sexual act. Some women have serious fights with their husbands when they are not satisfying them sexually. While the dissatisfaction can be tolerated in women with normal appetite for sex, it becomes a serious reason for fights in women who are hypersexual.
   I have seen a man who filed for divorce because he claimed that his life was threatened by his wife's constant and persistent demand for sex! It is not funny, ladies. This thing has wrecked homes!

2.Excessive time and energy spent obtaining sex, being sexual, or recovering from a sexual experience. Well, this is explains itself.
But to flesh it out a bit more: it means that one loves to engage in abnormally long hours of sexual activity. Even when they are drained and exhausted, the urge can still persist.

3.Giving up social, work-related, or recreational activities because you want to get sexual gratification.

Let me explain this a little more:

Even if you just got married and want to enjoy all the sex (perhaps because you married as a virgin at the age of 28 or 35) you have been missing, it still stands to reasons that there are instances when you would not want sex. You will just want to cuddle or lay in your hubby's huge arms or go see a movie and grab a bite of pizza. This is normal. Nothing wrong with this. But if it happens that you are always thinking of sex and always wanting to skip movies or other fun activities because they will deprive you of some minutes or hours of sex, then perhaps you should consult a Doc.

COMPLICATIONS OF HYPERSEXUALITY

1. Litigations for rape and sexual assaults. Usually, this is not the case in Africa. People don't believe that women, too, can rape men. But in other climes, you can get sued and thrown to jail for sexual assault.

2. Low self-esteem/self-worth leading to lack of confidence and hopelessness.

3. Depression

4. Exposure to sexually transmitted diseases e.g HIV/AIDS, gonororhoea, etc.

5. Relationship problems: This one is a big problem. Sexual problem is commonest reason why marriages crash today, followed by money problems.

6. Work problems

TREATMENT

It is important that you seek urgent medical attention when you feel that your sex urge cannot be controlled and if starts pushing you to do stuffs and take risks that you would not have taken under a normal setting.

Talking to your doctor will enable you arrive at a diagnosis and hence be made to undergo proper treatment.

Below are some of the treatment modalities available for treating hypersexuality:

1. Medical therapy: This is the use of drugs to stave off the such wild urges. Certain drugs have been found to work really well in keeping the sex drive on a slow cruise. Some antidepressants have been known to work well, both in hypersexual males and females.
   Also, mood stabilizers are used to calm down people suffering from bipolar disorder.
   
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2. Psychological therapy: This is also known as psychotherapy. Here, the hypersexual female is made to see a clinical psychologist with expertise in sex therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitence therapy, etc are some of the available psychotherapeutic options available for managing hypersexuality/sex addiction.

3. Self-help groups: This is where the sex addicts joins a group of sexaholics for support and encouragement. It works just like Alcoholic Anonymous (AA). But as we clearly know, such groups as often considered a taboo in this part of the world where sex talk is considered a terrible sin. That said, they prove very helpful to recovering sex addicts.

Wow!!With that said, I hereby bring the session to a close. Indeed it was nice educating you about this and please don't keep it all to yourself.

Thank you!