Satyriasis

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Classification according to ICD-10
F52.7 Increased sexual desire
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

As satyriasis or satyromania (named after the satyrs of Greek mythology ), later Donjuanism (after the figure of Don Juan ), a pathologically increased male sexual drive was described in medicine and psychology . The expression is now considered out of date.

Concept history

In the middle of the 19th century it was assumed that the excess could be caused by a hereditary disposition as well as by idleness, masturbation and a sedentary lifestyle. In addition to cold baths, acidic beverages, hard physical work and a reflection on moral values ​​in severe cases, treatment suggestions also included castration . At the end of the 19th century, the term Donjuanism was coined, initially used as a description of a psychological type who frequently changes sexual partner out of fear of attachment. From the early 20th century, the associated adjective "donjuanesk" arose, the pathological behavior was called "Donjuanism".

The term satyriasis is the male counterpart to the also no longer clinically applied term nymphomania or "male foolishness" of women, which is now under the number F52.7 as "increased sexual desire" or as satyriasis (man) or nymphomania (Woman) is listed on the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems . Even the more neutral term hypersexuality , which is equated with “sex addiction”, is often rejected today, since a quantification of sexual motivations and sexual perception is just as little as the number of partner changes (cf. promiscuity ) as the sole basis for a social norm of individual behavior The area of sexuality should be used, although this has proven to be an indicator of a possible pathological change in sexual appetite .

literature

  • Patrick Carnes: Destructive Lust. Sex as an addiction (Out of the shadows) (= [Heyne-Bücher / 17] Heyne-Psycho. Vol. 6). Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-00622-4 .
  • Reinhold Gerling: great women, great women. Satyriasis, nymphomania, and sexual hyperesthesia; a contribution to the correct assessment of incomprehensible conditions. 2nd edition, Orania-Verlag, Oranienburg 1921.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch , Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach , Justus Hecker , Ernst Horn , Heinrich Friedrich Link , Johann Stephan Müller (eds.): Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Medicinal Sciences. Volume 30, Veit, Berlin 1843, pp. 104-112.
    See also: Michael Stolberg (Hrsg.): Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Medicinal Sciences. (37 volumes). Fischer, Erlangen 1994, ISBN 3-89131-181-8 (151 microfiches).
  2. ↑ Hans Schulz, Otto Basler, Gerhard Strauss, Elke Donalies: German Foreign Dictionary. Vol. 4, De Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-11-016235-0 , pp. 856-857.
  3. ↑ Christian Schulte-Cloos: Sexuality and Addiction . Script (.doc; 369 kB).

Web links

Wiktionary: Satyriasis  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations