A US study estimated its prevalence to be 3% to 6% of the population. 7 Despite the negative consequences, the subject persists in engaging in the activity. The partner is merely the vehicle or the object rather than the participating companion.” 6 Sexual addiction is similarly marked by an uncontrollable engagement in sexual activity, causing distress and impairment to the person’s life, and severe stress on the family, friends, and work environment. The sexual drive is unvarying, voracious, impetuous, and unrestrained. 5 Nymphomania was defined by Auerbach as: “the insatiable impulse to engage in an abnormal number of sexual contacts with an abnormal number of partners without a deep emotional involvement. 1 The nineteenth century saw a shift from describing women being overwhelmed by excessive sexual desire using the term “furor uterinus” to “nymphomania.” 2 Esquirol 3 taught that, “Erotomania is to nymphomania what the ardent affections of the heart when chaste and honourable are in comparison with frightful libertinism while proposals most obscene and actions most shameful and humiliating betray nymphomania.” Bianchi described three forms of erotic hysteria: Erotic paranoia-in which a delusional jealous woman endlessly wishes to copulate with her partner so as to render him unable to make love to the women she imagines are always after him Platonic dreamers of love-women of approximately 50 years of age who pursue men with love letters and flowers, but refuse copulation and Nymphomania-“women with unfulfilled sexual craving that is intense and ardent.” 4 In the 1940s, labels such as nymphomania, erotomania, Casanova, and Don Juan Syndrome were used to conceptualize excessive sexual behavior as an immoral or antisocial act. All subjects Allied Health Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Dentistry Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Endocrinology & Metabolism Environmental Science General Medicine Geriatrics Infectious Diseases Medico-legal Neurology Nursing Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Oncology Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Otolaryngology Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care Pediatrics Pharmacology & Toxicology Psychiatry & Psychology Public Health Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine Radiology Research Methods & Evaluation Rheumatology Surgery Tropical Medicine Veterinary Medicine Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Environmental Science Life Sciences Neuroscience Pharmacology & Toxicology Biomedical Engineering Engineering & Computing Environmental Engineering Materials Science Anthropology & Archaeology Communication & Media Studies Criminology & Criminal Justice Cultural Studies Economics & Development Education Environmental Studies Ethnic Studies Family Studies Gender Studies Geography Gerontology & Aging Group Studies History Information Science Interpersonal Violence Language & Linguistics Law Management & Organization Studies Marketing & Hospitality Music Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Philosophy Politics & International Relations Psychoanalysis Psychology & Counseling Public Administration Regional Studies Religion Research Methods & Evaluation Science & Society Studies Social Work & Social Policy Sociology Special Education Urban Studies & Planning BROWSE JOURNALSīefore the nineteenth century, promiscuous women were mainly treated as delinquents, not medical cases, but this changed after the institutionalization of such cases in insane asylums.
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