Hypersexuality:The desire for human sexual behavior at levels high enough to be considered clinically significant.
It can come with varied mental illnesses or just alone. I am bipolar myself so my hypersexuality comes into play during my manic phases. The feeling is basically I need sex, I need sex, and I will actively seek it out similar to a person withdrawing searching for drugs. Now, obviously, that opens the door to: possible sex acts with either gender, group sex, and then risky sexual encounters.
My question or outloud wondering is that if this promsciousity can lead to a more open mind due to having sexual relations with the same or opposite sex can lead to shaping sexual orientation?
I.e. a self-identifying straight woman has sex with another female during an episode of mania, then starts to identify as bisexual due to the theoretical enjoyment of the act whereas she wouldn't have given it another thought in a normal mood.
I know in my mania, it's often hard to distinguish reality from non-reality as well as the weird ecstasy that comes from being in that state. I believe sexual orientation is fluid, and in no way am I stating that a mental disorder can change your sexual orientation or just because you have a mental disorder, you're swayed one way or the other. (Mainly, Homosexuality is not a mental disorder is what i'm trying to get at)
Even if you don't have any experience with hypersexuality, i'm just wondering what role hypersexuality might have in thinking or exploring one's sexuality or sexual orientation.
Thoughts, opinions, stories...?
It can come with varied mental illnesses or just alone. I am bipolar myself so my hypersexuality comes into play during my manic phases. The feeling is basically I need sex, I need sex, and I will actively seek it out similar to a person withdrawing searching for drugs. Now, obviously, that opens the door to: possible sex acts with either gender, group sex, and then risky sexual encounters.
My question or outloud wondering is that if this promsciousity can lead to a more open mind due to having sexual relations with the same or opposite sex can lead to shaping sexual orientation?
I.e. a self-identifying straight woman has sex with another female during an episode of mania, then starts to identify as bisexual due to the theoretical enjoyment of the act whereas she wouldn't have given it another thought in a normal mood.
I know in my mania, it's often hard to distinguish reality from non-reality as well as the weird ecstasy that comes from being in that state. I believe sexual orientation is fluid, and in no way am I stating that a mental disorder can change your sexual orientation or just because you have a mental disorder, you're swayed one way or the other. (Mainly, Homosexuality is not a mental disorder is what i'm trying to get at)
Even if you don't have any experience with hypersexuality, i'm just wondering what role hypersexuality might have in thinking or exploring one's sexuality or sexual orientation.
Thoughts, opinions, stories...?