With the word “hypersexuality”, many people have the image of a sultry fatal beauty or sexy macho before their eyes. But not many people know that such a term is a diagnosis that entails multiple problems.

What is hypersexuality in simple words

Hypersexuality (nymphomania) is an excessively increased sexual desire.

The concept of "nymphomania" arose on the basis of ancient Greek myths. According to them, the nymphs living in the forest lured men into the thicket and satisfied their lust. The Greeks were confident that these forest deities taught people various sexual poses and other tricks of love.

Causes of the disorder

Hypersexuality can be triggered by various factors, including:

  1. Hormonal malfunctions resulting from abortions, complex births, serious illnesses and injuries.
  2. Taking a number of drugs. Especially often, pathology is provoked by the use of psychoactive or narcotic drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease.
  3. Injuries to the brain and skull.
  4. Tumors of the central nervous system.
  5. Natural physiological processes (for example, pregnancy).
  6. Psychological problems (oligophrenia, schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis, etc.).
  7. Nymphomania can be the result of past operations on the brain.

The emergence of nymphomania can contribute to even wearing certain clothes. So, in the 17-18 centuries it was considered fashionable to wear corsets, which activated the flow of blood to the pelvis.It was this factor that influenced the constant sexual arousal of women of that time, which was the reason for the spread of myths about their hypersexuality.

Pathological forms and types in women and men

There are 2 main types of hypersexuality:

  1. Congenital Pathology manifests itself during puberty. Already at this time (11 - 13 years), a teenager wants communication with peers or adult partners. It is during this period that a girl or a young man can lose innocence, randomly change sexual partners. This phenomenon is called teenage hypersexuality, or puberty sexual activity.
  2. Acquired. It includes excessive sexual attraction of people of adult and adulthood who have not previously suffered from a similar pathology. Acquired nymphomania is often manifested in women on the verge of menopause. In healthy women, during this period, a decrease in desire for intimacy begins, while in women prone to nymphomania, it, on the contrary, increases significantly.

Men can also suffer from excessive sex drive. Male nymphomania can be accompanied by eternal dissatisfaction and systematic search for a partner, as well as strangeness in sexual terms. This pathology is called satyriasis. In Greek mythology, a deity was called Satyr, who was distinguished by excessive love of love, if not to say - sexual preoccupation.

People of both sexes who are prone to nymphomania or satyriasis experience an acute, literally pathological need for sexual joys. This aspect becomes the main thing for them and often leads to unpleasant consequences.

Signs and Symptoms

The main sign of nymphomania is considered excessive excitability. The patient needs only one look at the representative of the opposite sex, and the desire immediately begins to seethe in his blood.

Although initially nymphomaniacs try to satisfy their hunger with a regular partner, the latter often get tired of this pressure. Hypersexual women and men try to remove the “itch” with strangers, sometimes even strangers, and sometimes even with representatives of their own sex.

Symptoms of hypersexuality in women include:

  1. Promiscuity. Such women are distinguished by the absence of disgust, i.e. they are not particularly interested in age, marital status and even the appearance of a potential partner. The main thing is sexual contact.
  2. Bed egoism. A woman does everything for her own pleasure, desires and needs of a partner remain behind the scenes.
  3. Narcissism. The appearance of a nympho woman is usually always bright and provocative, often she is distinguished by defiant makeup that provokes a man to interest and further intimacy.

Hypersexuality in men is also accompanied by a number of recognizable symptoms:

  1. Frequent change of sexual partners.
  2. Even with multiple contacts in a short time, the man remains unsatisfied.
  3. Men affected by the disease are often free from relationships; short bonds are built exclusively on a sexual basis.

Attention! Nymphomania, as well as satyriasis, should be detected and cured in time. Otherwise, people with hypersexuality can pose a threat to society.

Suffering from such a pathology, people cannot control their desires, which are stronger than shame and a sense of common sense. Only medical intervention can help them.

Hypersexuality Treatment

Regardless of the patient’s gender or the reasons for the development of hypersexuality, he needs timely medical help.

In order to clarify the diagnosis, a specialist can assign a patient an MRI of the head (to exclude the presence of a neoplasm), tests for hormones and the presence of sexually transmitted infections. Accurate diagnosis is necessary to draw up appropriate treatment tactics.

Given the causative factor in the occurrence of sexual pathology, the following specialists can engage in treatment:

  1. Endocrinologist. Having studied the results of the examination of hormones, the specialist decides whether hormonal treatment is necessary in a particular case.
  2. Psychotherapist. Helps to achieve a decrease in sexual activity by prescribing sleeping pills, sedatives, and other similar drugs.
  3. Immunologist. His services are necessary if the attraction was strengthened as a result of eating food. The immunologist analyzes the patient’s diet, eliminating possible edible aphrodisiacs from it.
  4. Venereologist. Since overly sexual people are usually unintelligible in relationships, the risk of contracting various sexually transmitted diseases is very high. The doctor prescribes anti-infective and antifungal drugs to the patient.

Male and female hyper-excitability is treated with the help of sessions of a psychotherapist, although the latter can only be an addition to the main therapeutic methods.

Often visits to group and individual sessions are combined with drug treatment. Usually, as the patient recovers, they are advised to continue periodic visits to the treatment course for preventive purposes.

Complications and consequences

Completed treatment requires rehabilitation. As a rule, at this time, women remember and often rethink their actions. However, they often have to struggle with feelings of shame or guilt. The latter can be so pronounced and strong that individual psychological assistance, as well as collective training can be ineffective. Often, patients require relaxing baths.

In addition, for a long time a person prone to nymphomania usually loses interest in all aspects of life, excluding the sexual one. For this reason, social maladaptation may occur, patients cannot fully perform work duties, lose relationships and are unable to learn how to lead a partnership that ends in a legal marriage.

Dissatisfaction often causes depression and suicidal motives. Not to mention the fact that the frequent change of sexual partners significantly increases the risk of various genital infections

Pseudonym

The so-called false nymphomania manifests itself in the desire of a woman to have multiple promiscuous sexual contacts. At the same time, a person does not feel uncontrolled carnal attraction. Thus, the pseudonym is trying to raise his self-esteem, disguise complexes and prove to himself that he is still attractive to the opposite sex.

Often the desire for sexual adventures arises as an attempt to compensate for past failed relationships.

Such a condition is undoubtedly considered a mental disorder and requires professional intervention, but society with a real nymphomania does not have anything.

How to identify false nymphomania?

This condition has the following symptoms:

  • Increased libido, excessive excitability, the ability to manifest bright orgasms.
  • The desire to seek a new relationship immediately after the end of the previous hobby, especially if it was unsuccessful.
  • Inappropriate erotic fantasies, love of watching porn movies.

At the same time, their peculiarity does not prevent pseudonym fans from taking place in a career, being careful parents, friends, and generally controlling their behavior.

Hypersexuality is by no means a synonym for a great lover or lover. Often, such a diagnosis significantly complicates the lives of people. At the same time, both the patient himself and the people around him suffer, because nymphomania or satyriasis practically do not leave a chance to build strong and long-lasting relationships.

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