Sexual desire is one of the natural things that human beings feel, and the degree to which individuals feel it varies from person to person. Among these individuals are women who feel excessive sexual desire that amounts to addiction. This excessive desire affects their daily lives and social and emotional relationships.
Causes of Women’s Excessive Sexual Desire
Men are usually more lustful and willing to have sex than women, but women’s lust may increase; in some cases, they feel high sexually.
One of the reasons for women’s increased sexual desire is the following:
1. Studies suggest that women experiencing stress and anxiety may feel excessive sexual desire as a mechanism to relieve their psychological stress.
2. Some women who have experienced sexual abuse in the past may experience excessive sexual desire as a mechanism to re-control their bodies and prove their strength.
3. Hormones significantly affect women’s libido; when testosterone rises, it can increase sexual appetite in women.
4. Malnutrition: Foods lacking vitamins and minerals significantly affect public health and have a negative impact on women’s libido.
5. Some drugs adversely affect women’s libido, such as some blood pressure drugs and antibiotics.
6. Addiction to narcotic substances or alcohol can lead to an increase in libido in women.
7. Dissatisfaction with sexual relations can cause women to feel the need for excessive sex.
8. Some women suffer from sexual addiction that significantly increases their libido and causes difficulty controlling it.
Harmful Effects to Women’s Hypersexuality
1. Excessive libido can lead to sexual addiction, as an individual feels the constant need to engage in sexual relations frequently, and therefore this addiction can affect an individual’s daily life and social and emotional relationships.
2. Physical damage such as vaginal infections, severe pain during intercourse, and other genital diseases
3. Psychological damage, excessive libido can lead to some damage to an individual’s mental health, such as depression, guilt, and shame.
4. Societal alienation: deterioration of one’s social and emotional relationships
5. Addiction to watching porn, and therefore this addiction, can affect an individual’s mental health and social and emotional relationships.
6. Disability to enjoy sexual relationships, as the main goal becomes to satisfy sexual desire and not to enjoy relationships.
Treatment Methods of Hypersexuality in Women
A number of methods can be used to treat women’s hypersexuality, including:
1. Psychotherapy can be used to determine the exact causes of excessive sexual desire and determine the most appropriate treatment. Cognitive-behavioral therapy and sexual therapy can be used to help the individual improve sexual relationships and improve mental health.
2. Medications can be used to treat hypersexuality after consulting a specialist.
3. Lifestyle can be improved, and work can be done to reduce sources of stress and tension, such as relaxation, exercise, healthy nutrition, and adequate sleep.
4. Improve sexual relations, work to identify healthy methods of sexual interaction, such as communication with the partner, and enhance trust, understanding, delimitation, and mutual respect.
5. Group therapy sessions with a group of individuals with the same problem: this treatment can help improve mental health and social and emotional relationships.
Feel free to contact Dr. Mona Reda, Consultant Mental Health and Marital Relations.
