2018-07-28 at 8:23 PM UTC
Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the proposal for the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), the first revision of the global standard diagnostic catalogue since 1990. And among the proposed changes is the addition of a mental health condition called compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), which is a pretty big milestone in the mental health community.
CSBD is classified as an impulse control disorder, meaning it appears in the ICD-11 alongside conditions like gambling disorder and kleptomania.
CSBD is characterized by “a persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges resulting in repetitive sexual behaviour,” according to its diagnostic description in the ICD-11; this can include both the act of sex and sexual fantasies.
The umbrella term “impulse control disorder” includes a variety of psychiatric disorders “whose essential features are the failure to resist an impulse to perform an act that is harmful to the individual or to others,” according to the ICD. Individuals typically experience an increased sense of tension before the act, but then pleasure or gratification when they do the act, it goes on to explain.
According to the ICD, the hallmark symptoms of CSBD are “repetitive sexual activities becoming a central focus of the person’s life to the point of neglecting health and personal care or other interests, activities and responsibilities; numerous unsuccessful efforts to significantly reduce repetitive sexual behaviour; and continued repetitive sexual behaviour despite adverse consequences or deriving little or no satisfaction from it.”
OK you perverts you can try to get disabilitiy for your compulsive masturbation habit.
2018-07-28 at 10:33 PM UTC
joerell
African Astronaut
[twine our circinate supersymmetry]
Matt is already on it...just for being insane.
2018-07-28 at 10:54 PM UTC
Cootehill
African Astronaut
[my unsymmetrically blurry oregano]
Sluttiness in men and in women are completely different phenomena in my opinion.
It's probably a more complex in gays, but still same thing.
Of course if homosexuality, the biggest disorder there is, isn't a disorder any more due to political correctness, then who even cares?
