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Lenalee said: 

 For whatever reason I just always assumed sex addicts were simply Narcissists and the addiction was just a symptom? With the arrested development and need for validation, but i guess i didn't know that the addiction could cause narcissistic behaviors. 

Neat

Wait, what? Why couldn't it just be about the dopamine hits, like in other addictions?

 cause you could probably just masturbate for that really? The dopamine hit seems to come from dominating someone

I could see that, if all there was to sex was domination.

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cx3 said: 
Lenalee said: 

 For whatever reason I just always assumed sex addicts were simply Narcissists and the addiction was just a symptom? With the arrested development and need for validation, but i guess i didn't know that the addiction could cause narcissistic behaviors. 

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 what I'm finding interesting reading about it, is how it's not just about narcissists needing constant sexual validation for supply but how they use it as a tool for power and control 

 is this exclusive to NPD or narcissistic traits?

 I doubt it - likely prevalent among the cluster Bs - with the exception of BPDs - that motivation would likely play out differently   

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Lenalee said: 

 For whatever reason I just always assumed sex addicts were simply Narcissists and the addiction was just a symptom? With the arrested development and need for validation, but i guess i didn't know that the addiction could cause narcissistic behaviors. 

Neat

Wait, what? Why couldn't it just be about the dopamine hits, like in other addictions?

 cause you could probably just masturbate for that really? 

Sex and masturbation are not the same for that, like not even close. 

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Lenalee said: 

 For whatever reason I just always assumed sex addicts were simply Narcissists and the addiction was just a symptom? With the arrested development and need for validation, but i guess i didn't know that the addiction could cause narcissistic behaviors. 

Neat

Wait, what? Why couldn't it just be about the dopamine hits, like in other addictions?

 cause you could probably just masturbate for that really? 

Sex and masturbation are not the same for that, like not even close. 

 I suppose that depends if a certain amount of intimacy is the desire, which for most, people it likely is, but for narc sex addicts what looks like intimacy is more about a need to play out power dynamics in a place where their person (target) is most vulnerable 

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It takes a special kind of justifier to claim masturbation is better than sex, let alone equal to one another, assuming nothing's wrong with their ability to perform or something. 

Even for people who have no interest in who the hole is they're plunging into, they will take that over masturbating unless there is something in their minds blocking them off from the choice. They will go to a bathroom stall and stick it through a hole drilled into it rather than just opt for another night of internet porn, as there is far more going on here. There's smells, sounds, and the physical sensation has a way of putting the brain into some other place. Even something as simple as feeling a sense of movement that is not your own does things. 

More likely it's that sexual turn-on lowers inhibitions, which is why you can see people who 'would never do that' giving into things that surprise them after the fact. With a narcissist you'd then see their need for control come out as their brand of sex, assuming that's the direction the sex-addicted narcissist even took (there are narc subs). 

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last edit on 6/13/2022 11:58:13 PM
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OK, sorry.

So you think that narcissists use sex as a demonstration of power and/or control. Would this be in the sense that they get gratification from being able to get their partners to have sex with them, where mentally they're getting off on knowing they can get the person to do that, or does it go beyond that?

It goes way beyond that. It's not that sex represents power and control but it is 100% used as a tool for power and control with a narcissist as that is the only way they can relate to sex at all.   

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it honestly seems more out of control with histrionic types from what i've seen.

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Like glass

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Star said: 

Like glass

 Pfft

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just tyrnta help educate mate 

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last edit on 6/14/2022 3:11:05 AM
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