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Can't watch it in my country. Youtube sucks monkeyballs....

What's it about anyway? I mean, what's going on in the video? Is it a clip from National Geographics or what?

Can't view from my country either, but: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074gch

Thanks, but:

Actually it's not disturbing, but it gives a perspective of a woman who is addicted to sex, and there's several experts who analyze her behavior and why she became that way.

Cant watch it either.

the girl is fat and ugly

tuhboo

Hypothalamus right? YEAH BIO 30 CLASS

No, sex alone, of course, is not considered a disorder or abnormality. The problem here is that your view is directed only to one aspect of this issue. Heard of that overused cliche: "You're only looking at the tree, not the forest"? That applies to you, perfectly.

By your argument, you're implying that as long as it's a "normal" bodily function or normal daily activity, it cannot be an addiction or a disease? That shows a gross lack of knowledge in the field of mental development. Take hand washing, playing online games, or even opening/closing the door for example...all these things can be considered normal human activities. However, when the inability to perform them when the person desires to do so causes them moderate to even severe anxiety, it shows the pervasive nature of the addiction - therefore, it is pathological.

Mental illness is simply a symptom, just like a fever or inflammation, when the body/mind attempts to protect itself from harm. In this case, anxiety is the pathogen; her having sex with other men is her way of alleviating that anxiety. That is textbook maladaptive behavior. Her retracing her "steps" to her lack of affection from a father figure is trying to find out when this "disease" was introduced to her.

It becomes a pathological addiction when the desire to acquire anything becomes disruptive in a person's daily life and the thought of wanting it becomes uncontrollable, repetitive, and pervasive. You can look at it using multiple theoretical models - whether it be psychoanalytical, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, or interpersonal - and you would probably come to the conclusion that the affected person was unsuccessful at fulfilling an early stage of their development or was exposed to a traumatizing incident at one point in their life.

Addiction, at least according to my reading, is already considered a form of maladaptive behavior (a product of mismanaged anxiety), although society's view (normal everyday people) on addiction is quite different. Emotional dependency (which in turn affects a person's biochemical/mental state) is not seen by others as something that deserves professional help simply because it does not have a direct chemically-dependent etiology like cocaine/dopamine or nicotine has. Looking at the physiological effects of the behavior, it does have a biochemical effect on the brain which induces pleasure and satisfaction to mask the underlying anxiety - only it's indirect, I suppose.

But I would definitely look that up. They're not going to publish it until 2013...hmmm, I probably would be starting to take my NP Masters degree during that time if I do manage to get hospital sponsorship.

Speaking of which, I'm taking another exam on this subject in 3 hours lol. See ya.

tl:dr

Sex is guuud. Have it as much as possible when the opportunity arises.

Well, people can become addicted to anything really!
Etc.. food,game,coffee" so why not sex?

That's every addiction.

Sex, music, food, they release a euphoric feeling in the brain, makes you happy.
If you take drugs and alcohol, the same thing is triggered thanks to them.

But anything can be addicting really. So why not sex. It makes people happy. Some things are even an addiction to you without you noticing it.

This is serious business.

Lol Yes it is. There's a reason drug companies and insurance companies monitor these issues closely. Then again, it's probably not your field of interest.