hypersexuality
nounEtymology From hyper- + sexuality.
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Usually Excessive desire for sexual activity, especially when considered high enough to be clinically significant.
- Is promiscuity a cover for an underlying despair? Perhaps my own hypersexuality has served a narcissism I dare not face: a surface vanity (which must constantly be reinforced) concealing an inner doubt about my own importance as a human being.1983 August 13, Richard Royal, “AIDS and Promiscuity”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 6:
- For example, there are many reports of hypersexuality following traumatic brain injury to frontal regions. Although disinhibition is one common consequence of frontal lesions, not all frontal lesions will result in hypersexuality, […]2010, Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 96: