Which addiction do you find most "unsympathetic"?

How good you’re not a fool…

Exactly. At least one here…

Sex addiction is a recognized disease.

Hmm, the WHO (“World Health Organization”), which is responsible for recognizing or not accepting diseases worldwide (also for the AOK (“General Ortskrankenkasse”)), sees this differently.

Science, too.

And the sex physicians who are trained to treat problematic sexual behavior – and do this successfully daily – see it anyway.

(Of course the order is not true: The sex physicians have always been treating them, scientific research confirms them and refutes the inventors of “sex addiction”, and consequently the WHO does not recognise “sex addiction” as a disease – and thus no “foreignly concealed”: Express!)

However, “sex addiction” is something different than “hypersexuality” (or should at least be something else – it has never happened).

On the other hand, on the occasion, the WHO has also started “hypersexuality”. Dumb running.

Now there are CSBD (“Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder”) or “Forced Sexual Behaviour”. What that should be exact is still unclear (the English-language Wikipedie article contains, for example, serious errors).

Up to now, it is an empty placeholder that has to be filled in content.

It is more important because it already defines when COD is NOT to diagnose, and what it is basically NOT. NOT to diagnose is COD

• in various diseases (such as depression), which may result in excessive (sexual) behavior as is known (e.g. “world curse”);
• in the case of paraphilia (otherwise also);
• in the case of “moral” problems with sexuality, usually raised by sexually harmful religions or beliefs (i.e., for example, X would have “too much” sex or “promiskuitive” etc. – that is, DAS, which so far has been known in the public under “sex addiction”: repentance of unfaithful celebrities such as, for example, Tiger Woods or Bill Clinton.

And what CSBD basically and completely express NOT:

• It is NOT a addiction disease (which, s.o., especially also the supposed “porno addiction” has been carried to grave (or better: already driven off before birth).

Conclusion: The AOK article is from February 2023. WHO’s ICD-11 (“International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems”) was adopted by WHO members (including Germany) in mid-2020 and entered into force on January 2022.

In the rather practical DSM (“Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”) of the APA (“American Psychological Association”), the “hypersexuality” was rejected for version V in 2015 – and “sex addiction” (evebsk “porno addiction”.

And certainly the “self-help groups” recommended in the article are NOT helpful: https://www.martyklein.com/sex-addiction-treatment-destroys-marriages/

So let everyone draw their conclusions about the quality of AOK information management in general and the article in particular …