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Can Too Much Sex be a Bad Thing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Dan J. Stein  and
Donald W. Black
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Psychiatry has a long tradition of believing that too much sex is a bad thing. The classical literature provides detailed accounts of men and women who demonstrated apparently pathological sexual appetites. Since Freud, psychoanalytic authors have held that masturbation is unhealthy, and psychodynamically oriented thinkers have written on Don Juanism and nymphomania.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 5 , Issue 1: The Epidemiology, Psychopharmacology, and Neurobiology of Compulsive Sexual Behavior , January 2000 , pp. 18
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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