The American Psychological Association once considered homosexuality as a psychological disorder that needed to be cured. They are now officially considering adding “Hypersexuality” to  to the new DSM-5 conditions and disorders that they believe would  benefit from psychiatric or psychological treatment.

This "disorder" is a huge load of bullshit.

Are you unsure what hypersexuality is? Join the club- until reading this today, I honestly had no idea what the term meant, or why it would require medical treatment of some kind.

Let’s take a look at these criteria one by one. If someone has four out of five of these criteria, they can be considered as “Hypersexual”.

1. Spending a lot of time consumed by sexual fantasies and urges is apparently now a warning sign for something more insidious.

Really?

Does this mean that every adolescent boy should be put into an at-risk category for being at the mercy of his natural hormonal urges? What about a peri-menopausal woman who also has a heightened sex drive? Should she go the way of Tiger Woods and seek out treatment for sexual addiction or deviancy? I don’t think so.

2.  Engaging in sexual fantasies in response to boredom, irrititability. etc.

 
Again, what eactly is the problem with relieving boredom through  sexual fantasies, masturbation, and/or acting them out.

Is it really all that better to remain bored or irritable? And, don’t people often get more irritable when they have no release from their sexual urges?

Is acting out your sexual fantasies with a willing partner really worse than smoking, drinking, drug-use, or any other thing that people do to relieve stress? From what I understand, orgasms actually have health benefits, one of which is relieving stress.

3.  Repetitively engaging in sexual fantasies, urges, and behavior in response to stressful life events. 

I fail to see the difference between this and the previous criteria.

 

4.  Repetitive and unsuccessful urges to control sexual behavior

......hmmmmmm, should we consider the fact that many religious conservatives might try to control their fantasies and masturbation and thus, feel guilty about sex?

How can this actually be considered a criteria for anything? If I try to drink less, does that automatically make me an alcoholic?

5. Repetitively engaging in sexual behavior without regard for harm to yourself or others. 

Of the five possible criteria, this is the only one that even comes close to resembling anything that someone could actually need treatment for. 

Why should a person’s sexuality be considered a disease or a condition to be monitored and controlled when we know it is a natural part of human existence?

I agree that if harm is caused to yourself or others, there is a problem, but  there are definitely worse ways to deal with stress, boredom, and anxiety than exploring your sexual needs and fantasies.