Key Takeaways

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Sex addiction often involves a compulsion and problems with impulse control related to sexual activity, such as sexual intercourse. • There are brain changes and epigenetic factors that may play a role in sex addiction. • Sex addiction is not a separate mental disorder but can be part of hypersexual disorder. • Prostitution involves exchanging sexual favors for money. It can be organized or an independent practice. • One of the problems of prostitution is human sex trafficking, which includes the trafficking of children and sex tourism. • Prostitution tends to spread sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV disease. • Pornography addiction does not exist as a separate mental disorder but involves the compulsion to view pornography, even if there are negative consequences. • Cybersex can involve pornography or webcam sex that takes place over the internet. Some people participate in this behavior in order to make money, similar to prostitution.