Someone who thinks their sex drive is “too high” may feel ashamed or like something is wrong with them. But typically, their desire isn't the problem—it’s just a symptom of this.
, and it is a controversial term in the psychological community. There’s very little consensus about what it actually means.
Some have defined it in terms of the number of orgasms per week. For example, I’ve seen it defined as having 7+ orgasms a week or oneper day on average. However, in a study that assessed orgasm frequency, up to 26 percent of men and 10 percent of women reported having 7 or more orgasms per week. A totally arbitrary criterion like this, therefore, puts a huge number of people into the “problem” category and unnecessarily pathologizes a lot of folks with high but healthy sex drives.
Defining hypersexuality in terms of the number of orgasms is also problematic from the standpoint that not everyone regularly or consistently has orgasms. To get around these problems, hypersexuality is more commonly defined in terms of feelings of psychological distress . However, this approach has its own issues because some people with totally normal sex drives are distressed about them.
For example, this often happens when people with high sex drives are shamed for wanting “too much” sex. In other words, we’re often dealing with a perception problem here—their sex drive itself isn’t the problem; it’s the way they’ve been led to feel about it.
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