Unfortunately, I can’t cite a specific reference and I have never found one and there probably isn’t one but there are many volumes of data reported in medical journals, journals concerning Primatology, Physiology, Biochemistry, etc… which consider the relationship between neurotransmitters (like dopamine and norepinepherine and oxytocin and nitric oxide and others) and the various hypothetical constructs for addiction. Considering the various behaviors associated with mating among male and female humans, mating is very dangerous for both a male and female so there would have to be a lot of short-term rewards for promoting sexual intercourse (the feeling of a “high” which is caused by the norepinepherine and dopamine titers relative to one another – and others). No surprise that a body will develop an habituation to and dependency upon the neurotransmitters and hormones associated with sexual behavior. It’s selectively adaptive because evolutionarily, sex wasn’t as easy as it is today. Pursuit of the opposite sex required much greater investment and involved much more risk. Addiction to “sex” is not really an addiction to “sex”. Any addiction is characterized by the use of the object of the addiction (cocaine, alcohol, sex…) for manipulating others, both to acquire the object AND to exercise power and control over others. You can drink alcohol like a fish even to the point of scirosis of the liver but if you don’t manipulate others for it or with it, then it’s not an addiction. It doesn’t hurt others directly and not much indirectly. But if you use the alcohol to manipulate others with the public spectacle of your chronic victimhood and to keep getting a bigger dose of the “high” associated with that object and/or ability to control others with it, then it’s an addiction. https://pad.schaut.dev/s/kFXNuKg2_ https://md.linksjugend-solid.de/s/PprcqSINx https://pad.wdz.de/s/L6hIml3I- https://pad.public.cat/s/KMqjfacFM https://hedgedoc.syyrell.com/s/ISfTMcGjZ https://md.swk-web.com/s/7RRzmSk-Q https://notes.medien.rwth-aachen.de/s/RZTeyG5oR https://pad.interhop.org/s/VKHl7pvwK https://pad.riot-os.org/s/evcF512i4 https://docs.localcharts.org/s/MqdjGIK9p https://zumpadpro.zum.de/s/ryp6nVF4lg https://pad.ccc-p.org/s/eZp_7g1ID https://naya.com.np/post/p1760709479l24py https://slayalicantov.gitbook.io/dater-seeker/untitled https://okcupid.hashnode.dev/why-looks-and-attraction-are-key-in-dating https://peace-and-love.teachable.com/p/awomanwithchilddoesn-tscareme https://alisa-s-school-da4c.thinkific.com/courses/be-the-nice-guy-women-can-t-resist https://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/okcupid/post/1382138846 https://craigslist-alternative.denieuwezorgverzekering.nl/ https://craigslist-alternative.coolepagina.nl/ https://craigslist-alternative.zibb.nl/ https://craigslist-alternative.webprogids.nl/ https://craigslist-alternative.10sec.nl/ https://craigslist-alternative.jobcenters.nl/ https://craigslist-alternative.webmastercity.nl/ https://craigslist-alternative.jestartpagina.nl/ https://craigslist-alternative.blieb.nl/