Your Brain on Sex
Sexual addiction is first and foremost a disease of the brain. Even though sex is not being ingested like a chemical substance (such as alcohol or drugs) it still dramatically affects brain chemistry creating a dependency on sexual arousal for the addict. Sexual arousal changes the mood of the addict by providing a hit or a high to the reward center of the brain resulting in a brain bath of pleasure chemicals. Any behavior that produces pleasure temporarily alters brain chemi