Myth of sexual compulsivity

The World Health Organization WHO has classified compulsive sexual behaviour as a mental health disorder for the first time. The disorder is not characterized by the number of sexual partners or how much sex a person has, but rather the inability to control sexual urges. According to the WHO, compulsive sexual behaviour disorder is defined as an inability to control intense sexual urges leading to people neglecting their health despite often deriving no pleasure from being intimate. The debate about whether to classify compulsive sexual behaviour as a mental disorder has been ongoing throughout the past decade.