My husband has a strong sexual desire

Hypersexuality, also known as strong sexual desire, refers to a symptom of excessive sexual desire and excitement. The clinical characteristics are frequent sexual impulses, abnormally urgent sexual requirements, increased frequency of intercourse, multiple sexual activities (including intercourse) every day, and increased intercourse time, far exceeding the level that ordinary people can accept. Some people with more serious hypersexuality can reach the level of being willing to make friends with people who are different, shameless, and not refusing targets, time, and place. They can also have obvious sexual desire climaxes with erotic feelings when waving, kissing, hugging, and touching. Chinese medicine calls it "flower madness", "flower infatuation", "promiscuous style", and "lustful power".

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Hypersexuality

Endocrine imbalance is the key cause of hypersexuality. Another key cause is psychological disorders (e.g., when adolescence is lacking in sexual education for a long time, exposure to erotic magazines, pictorials, images, etc. can easily lead to long-term excitement, which will cause psychological trauma over time. In severe cases, it is difficult to let go for life, leading to hypersexuality and habitual masturbation).

There is an integral information system in the human body that controls all reproductive activities, which is the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis. The maintenance of human sexual life and male sexual function is closely related to the normal operation of this axis. If there is an obstruction at any stage, sexual dysfunction may occur. In addition to the influence of this axis, human sexual activity is also affected by the cerebral cortex. If there is a disease in the brain or hypothalamus-pituitary nerve center, or if it is more sensitive to estrogen, it will increase the excessive activity of the sexual desire nerve center in the hypothalamus-pituitary gland, and the anterior pituitary gland gonadotropin or androgen metabolism is excessive (such as pituitary LH metabolism tumor, testicular stromal cell tumor or hyperplasia), it will cause hypersexuality. Some brain tumors can cause adult hypersexuality. For example, in the early stages of a pituitary growth hormone-metabolizing tumor, the glands can metabolize too much growth hormone, resulting in hypersexuality. The male genital tissues are abnormally sensitive to normal or even significantly lower than normal levels of testosterone.

About 10-20% of patients with hyperthyroidism have hypersexuality in the early stages.

Because of their mental disorder, mental patients have reduced ability to suppress sexual impulses, and about 65% of both men and women will have a tendency to hypersexuality.

Very few moral and legal, spiritual factors are related. They are very interested in pornographic novels and pornographic videos, and often accept a lot of sexual excitement, even addicted to sex, frequent sex life, and the main manifestation is too much, too fast, and too dramatic sexual impulse.

The patient is in a state of obvious and continuous sexual excitement. The normal frequency of sexual intercourse cannot take into account the patient's physiological needs, so he is often in a state of sexual hunger. Because the level of sexual desire varies significantly among ordinary people, and can vary greatly at different ages and even in different environments, it is impossible to make a specific definition for hypersexuality.

Typical hypersexuality is mainly manifested by indulging in sexual excitement all day long, showing the desire for sexual needs from all aspects. In order to secondary consider looking for all possible sexual life goals and all possible life opportunities. When this impulse is obvious and there is no way to vent, the patient will experience anxiety, irritation, panic, insomnia and other symptoms, and may even commit suicide due to unbearable pain or extreme shame. It was reported that an old lady with hypersexuality exposed her sexual organs in public, said sexually aggressive and dirty words, and openly masturbated. So far, the cause of hypersexuality is not very clear, and it may be related to many different factors. The influence of the natural environment during adolescence plays a certain role in the onset of the disease, such as the sexual promiscuity of the patient's parents or friends, the patient's own premature sexual activities or excessive exposure to pornographic books and videos. Hypersexuality is more likely to be a symptom of a certain mental illness or organic disease, such as mania, depression, epilepsy, some brain tumors, endocrine diseases, etc.