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Originally Posted by LovelaceF
I don't think that sexuality is so simplistic as to be boiled down to a normal/deviant dichotomy. I think there are shades of normalcy. There are so many people who have one kind of particular sexual interest, or another, that I am hesitant to write them off as immediate addicts.
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Yes. I also see no connection between deviancy and addiction. Deviancy must have something to do with being on the tail ends on the bell curve. Addiction must have something to do with having behaviors that ruin your life yet you cannot stop or curtail or modify them. I am not sure that those are the exact meanings of the terms, but I am just trying to apply some common sense and general knowledge of English.
If those meanings are indeed in the ballpark, then deviancy and addiction are orthogonal.
Say, asexuality may be classified as deviancy because it is positioned on one of the tail ends of the bell curve, yet it does not ruin one's life.
On the other hand, you can engage in missionary position sex with one and the same member of the opposite sex all day long missing your work to the point of getting fired, and that would be classified as an addiction.