This study sought to explain the existence of a controversial subculture of gay men, a group whose main attribute is an active desire to voluntarily contract HIV. The following research reasons “bug chasing” as being symptomatic of sexual addiction. A quasirandomized survey of personal advertisements of HIV-negative bug chasers and barebackers—gay men who intentionally eschew condom use without...

Hypersexuality has been defined as the subjective experience of loss of control over sexuality (Catalan and Singh, 1995). It is known to be associated with mood, impulse and compulsive disorder (Coleman and Kafka, 1991) and with biological factors such as brain injury involving septal nuclei (Gorman and Cummins, 1992) and dementia (Potocnik, 1992). Sexual addiction is synonymous with hypersexua...

Background and aims Research on sexual addiction flourished during the last decade, promoted by the development of an increased number of online sexual activities. Despite the accumulation of studies, however, evidence collected in clinical samples of treatment-seeking people remains scarce. The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics (socio-demographics, sexual habits, and comorb...

A case of hypersexual behavior occurring in association with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is described. This patient had non–paraphilic heterosexual multiple partner behavior or sexual addiction. The patient also exhibited nonsexual obsessions and compulsions diagnostic of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The case is presented for its clinical interest, because sexual addiction is rare esp...

The review by Kraus and colleagues [1] examining the empirical evidence base for classifying compulsive sexual behaviour (CSB) as a behavioural (i.e. non-substance) addiction raises many important issues and highlights many of the problems in the area, including the problems in defining CSB, and the lack of robust data from many different perspectives (epidemiological, longitudinal, neuropsycho...