Causes of Hypersexuality

***What causes Hypersexuality?***

Hypersexuality is connected directly to many separate issues or disorders, as either a symptom, or feature of said disorder.
However, There is no one singular cause for hypersexuality and they simply may not even be actual causes themselves but rather these conditions are associated commonly with Hypersexuality because they exacerbate Hypersexual issues. In some cases there may be no cause at all, and is simply an inherit trait of a person.

The Most common known causes or comorbid issues associated with hypersexuality are:

Bipolar Disorder

Many people with Bipolar have hypersexual phases that either align specifically with their Manic state, or less often with their depressive state. However many Bipolar people have persistent hypersexuality that fluctuates in intensity over their mood cycles.
Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder very often results in highly risky behaviors, impulsivity and seeking of validation and seeking to avoid abandonment. These features are likely factors as to why someone with Borderline Personality Disorder are hypersexual.
Sexual Abuse and Sexual Trauma during Childhood, and sometimes Adulthood.

Hypersexuality as a result of sex abuse, sexual trauma such as early exposure to porn, and early sexual experiences during childhood are commonly reported among hypersexual people. Some people report becoming hypersexual after they were raped. It is less common that adult sexual trauma results in hypersexuality. There is no conclusion as to why sex abuse, early exposure to sex, and sexual trauma cause a person to become hypersexual.
There are possible potential connections of higher rates of Hypersexuality in people who are also ADHD and/or have Autism.

Hypersexuality in of itself can also be Congenital.

> Some people are simply born hypersexual and experience childhood to teenage development into sexuality and sexual expression very differently. This atypical development often includes having experience attraction to the opposite/same gender, recognizing an awareness of sexual desires at a very young, typically much younger than their peers. Many Hypersexual people who do and do not have BP, BPD, or a history of sex abuse or mental illness report that they had always felt and had sexual feelings and had sexual behaviors and do not remember a time at which they didn't. Some hypersexual people simply feel or report that they were born that way and it has always been a part of their life.
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> Hypersexuality as a congenial trait implies a hypothetical inherited predisposition, and that people who inherit this trait either have it expressed from the start or an experience, or comorbid issue causes it to express. The concept implies that Hypersexuality may be an orientation that occurs because of different factors from Allosexual(normal sexual expression), Demisexual, and Asexual people.
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**Many Hypersexual people consider HS to be their sexual orientation, as other orientation descriptions do not fulfill or describe their sexual identity.**

A very important factor to understand here is that ***You do not have to have had sex to be a hypersexual.***

It is unknown as to why so many factors result in Hypersexuality, but there is the potential that these issues cause hypersexuality simply because the person is predisposed to be hypersexual and one of these issues catalyzed it, or the hypersexuality was latent and an experience allows it to fully manifest. These are hypotheses and largely are based on assumption due to association to the factors that are known to exist along side hypersexuality. Hypersexuality may have a genetic factor, as some Hypersexuals report that others of their family are also Hypersexual or exhibit behavior typical of Hypersexuality.