understanding hyper-sexuality: how a history of trauma leads to sex as self-harm

I did extensive research on how many of us struggling with complex trauma tend to use sex and intimacy as an unhealthy coping mechanism and how this can actually be a form of self-abandonment and re-traumatization.

Questions answered and concepts explored in this episode:

Compulsive sexual behavior & hyper-sexuality,The connection between personality disorders and compulsive sexual activitySexual masochism / Sex as Self-Harm (and its many forms)The dangers of sex work when we've not fully healed our own trauma (sugar daddies, OnlyFans, prostitution, etc.)

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