Sex addiction
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89003011
- info:lc/authorities/sh89003011
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh89003011#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Addiction, Lust
- Addiction, Sex
- Addictive sex
- Compulsive sex
- Erotomania (Hypersexuality)
- Hypersexuality
- Lust addiction
- Obsession, Sexual
- Sexaholism
- Sexual addiction
- Sexual compulsiveness
- Sexual obsession
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Sexual addiction
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Sexaholics Anonymous(Sexaholism-the addiction)
- found: LC data base, 5/9/89(Sexual addiction; Sex addiction)
- found: Hennepin(Sexual addiction x Addictive sex, Compulsive sex, Hypersexuality, Sexual compulsiveness, Sexual obsession)
- found: Campbell psych. dict.(erotomania: sometimes erotomania is used as an equivalent of hypersexuality)
- notfound: Kaplan psych.;Kaplan clin. psych.;DSM III-R;Peng. dict. psych.;Evans psych.;IAC
LC Classification
- RC560.S43
Change Notes
- 1989-05-17: new
- 1997-05-28: revised
Alternate Formats
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