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Sex & Love
Sexual-health concerns require respectful assessment of physical health, distress, functioning, consent and safety. Consensual sexual diversity is not automatically a disorder. “Nymphomania” is an outdated label, and “obsessive love disorder” is not a standalone diagnosis. Paraphilic interests and disorders need careful distinction, with safeguarding when consent or safety is at risk.
Compulsive Sexual Behavior: Assessment, Distress and Treatment; Sexual Difficulties and Mental Health: Physical and Psychological Assessment; Sex Therapy: What Sessions Involve and How to Choose Support; Sexual Trauma and Intimacy: Safety, Consent and Therapeutic Support; Compulsive Sexual Behavior, Mood Episodes and Substance Use; Paraphilic Interests and Disorders: Consent, Distress and Specialist Assessment.
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Choosing Sexual-Health Support: Medical, Psychosexual and Trauma Care
A decision-focused guide to choosing medical, psychosexual, or trauma-related support, checking professional boundaries, and coordinating referrals without pressure.
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Sexual Trauma and Intimacy: Safety, Consent and Therapeutic Support
Sexual trauma can change how closeness feels, but it does not define your sexuality. Learn how consent, thoughtful assessment, medical care, and therapeutic support…
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Sexual Difficulties and Mental Health: Physical and Psychological Assessment
Sexual difficulties deserve assessment that considers physical health, mental health, medication effects, relationships, and consent together. Learn what to expect and how to choose…
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Paraphilic Interests and Disorders: Consent, Distress and Specialist Assessment
Consensual sexual variation is not automatically a psychiatric disorder. Understand how consent, distress, risk, and specialist assessment shape care for paraphilic interests and disorders.
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Compulsive Sexual Behavior, Mood Episodes and Substance Use
Persistent loss of sexual control, mood-episode disinhibition, and substance-related changes can look similar. A timeline-based assessment helps distinguish them and plan coordinated care without…
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Low Sex Drive
Low sex drive, also called decreased libido, can affect people of all genders. Low desire alone is not necessarily a disorder.
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Sexual Frustration Symptoms
Sexual frustration describes distress about unmet sexual wishes. Persistent sexual-function symptoms may have medical, psychological or relationship-related causes.
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Hypersexual Disorder
A high sex drive alone is not a disorder. ICD-11 recognizes compulsive sexual behavior disorder when persistent loss of control over sexual behavior causes…
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Premature Ejaculation
Premature ejaculation involves recurrent early ejaculation, difficulty delaying it, and distress. Assessment distinguishes lifelong symptoms from acquired changes.
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Sexual Masochism Disorder
Sexual Masochism Disorder involves persistent arousal from pain or humiliation together with clinically significant distress or impairment
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Exhibitionism
Exhibitionism can involve sexual arousal from exposing one’s genitals, sometimes to an unsuspecting or nonconsenting person; consensual sexual expression alone is not a disorder.…
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Pedophilia
Pedophilia refers to sexual interest in prepubescent children. A clinical diagnosis of pedophilic disorder requires additional criteria. Sexual interest is distinct from child sexual…
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