WHAT PRICE AFFECTION AND EUPHORIA? –
April 13, 2023 – New research suggests that is not the case. The findings, published in Sexual Health & Compulsivity, indicate that love addiction and sex addiction are two distinct phenomena.
Love addiction is a kind of obsession with one or more people that is “characterized by a maladaptive, pervasive and excessive love interest.” It’s not an official condition yet, and experts are still debating whether it should be recognized as one. One way to understand love addiction is through the Components Model of Addiction, which holds that it is characterized by six discrete dimensions: HERE IS THE LIST…
The Love Addiction Inventory has been developed to assess the severity of love addiction symptomatology according to these six dimensions.
To better understand the commonalities and differences between love addiction and so-called “sex addiction,” the researchers had participants complete both the Love Addiction Inventory and the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory — a validated measure that assesses three aspects of hypersexuality: difficulty controlling sexual urges, using sex to cope with unpleasant emotional experiences or in response to stress, and negative consequences related to sexual behavior.
