Abstract
Sexual addiction otherwise known as compulsive sexual behavior is associated with serious psychosocial problems and risk-taking behavior. This study used the Cybersex addiction test, Craving for pornography questionnaire, and a Questionnaire on intimacy among 267 participants (192 males and 75 females) mean age for males 28.16 (SD = 6.8) and for females 25.5 (SD = 5.13) who were recruited from special sites that are dedicated to pornography and cybersex on the Internet. Results of regression analysis indicated that pornography, gender, and cybersex significantly predicted difficulties in intimacy and it accounted for 66.1% of the variance of rating on the intimacy questionnaire. Second, regression analysis also indicated that craving for pornography, gender, and difficulties in forming intimate relationships significantly predicted frequency of cybersex use and it accounted for 83.7% of the variance in ratings of cybersex use. Third, men had higher scores of frequency of using cybersex than women [t(2,224) = 1.97, p < 0.05] and higher scores of craving for pornography than women [t(2,265) = 3.26, p < 0.01] and no higher scores on the questionnaire measuring difficulties in forming intimate relationship than women [t(2,224) = 1, p = 0.32]. These findings support previous evidence for sex differences in compulsive sexual behavior.
Highlights
Sex addiction otherwise known as Compulsive sexual behavior, has been associated with serious psychosocial problems and risktaking behaviors
Craving for pornography accounted for 29.3% of the variance, frequency of cybersex accounted for 20% of the variance, and gender accounted for 16.8% of the variance
Craving for pornography accounted for 58.8% of the variance, intimacy accounted for 13.4% of the variance, and gender accounted for 11.5% of the variance
Summary
Sex addiction otherwise known as Compulsive sexual behavior, has been associated with serious psychosocial problems and risktaking behaviors. This behavior has not been recognized as a disorder that merits inclusion in the DSM [1] see Ref. The American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees rejected several proposals for the new disorder and sexual addiction does not appear in the DSM-5. Sex addiction is associated with behaviors such as constantly seeking new sexual partners, having frequent sexual encounters, engaging in compulsive masturbation, and frequently using pornography. Some studies find that sexual addiction is associated with or in response to dysphoric affect [9, 12,13,14,15,16] or stressful life events [17]
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