E29 Compulsive Sexual Behaviours with Silva Neves

Many people struggle with what they call 'sex addiction' such as watching a lot of porn or having lots of sex outside of a relationship. Silva Neves challenges the idea of addiction in relation to sexual behaviours. He says that disorders of sexual compulsivity are quite rare, and that people who think they are 'sex addicts' often have only a couple of traits of sexual compulsive disorder. Hear Silva explore what he believes is going on when someone is using sex compulsively, and why stopping the behaviours straight away is not advised. Find out more about Silva here;  https://www.silvaneves.co.uk/