FREE addiction assessment at your nearest Priory hospital. Sex and love addiction are widely misunderstood intimacy disorders characterised by destructive sexual behaviours that can have a devastating impact on your life, as well as on the lives of those who care about or depend upon you. Treatment for sex and love addiction at Priory involves a variety of inpatient and outpatient based behavioural therapy programmes, which can also include Priory's Addiction Treatment Programme. The comprehensive treatment will help you to develop healthy patterns of loving and relating to others, setting you up for continued recovery with the help of support groups once treatment is finished. Also sometimes referred to as, 'compulsive sexual behaviour' or 'hypersexual disorder', sex addiction is characterised by excessive urges to have sex or engage in other sex-related behaviours, even when such actions may jeopardise your physical health, emotional wellbeing or social standing.

Do you keep secrets about your sexual behavior or romantic fantasies from those important to you? Do you lead a double life? Do you need greater variety, increased frequency, or more extreme sexual activities to achieve the same level of excitement or relief? Do your relationships become distorted with sexual preoccupation? Does each new relationship have the same destructive pattern which prompted you to leave the last one?

Sexual addiction , also known as sex addiction , is a state characterized by compulsive participation or engagement in sexual activity , particularly sexual intercourse , despite negative consequences. Proponents of a diagnostic model for sexual addiction consider it to be one of several sex-related disorders within hypersexual disorder. Related or synonymous models of pathological sexual behavior include hypersexuality nymphomania and satyriasis , erotomania , Don Juanism or Don Juanitaism , and paraphilia -related disorders. The concept of sexual addiction is contentious.