PhronesisWe apply the Displacement Framework to Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD), the ICD-11 diagnostic entity formalizing what is clinically called hypersexuality or sex addiction. The sexual-relational ground state S°_sexual is defined across five dimensions: sexual activity as option within a broader life (not an imperative), affect calibration to genuine desire, intimacy capacity, value congruence, and domain proportion.
The key marker of S°_sexual is choice — not frequency. The core formal claim is that CSBD is primarily an affect regulation disorder, not a sexual disorder: sexual behavior in CSBD is driven by escape from negative affect (anxiety, shame, boredom, loneliness) rather than by desire. The wrong attractor W_CSBD is maintained by the shame-escalation loop — post-behavior shame generates the further negative affect requiring further sexual escape — formalized as a recurrence equation.
The novelty treadmill is modeled as dopaminergic habituation requiring dose escalation, with pornography identified as an industrial-scale novelty engine eliminating natural escalation constraints. Intimacy displacement formalizes the substitution of sexual behavior for reciprocal connection, with degradation of relational capacity through disuse. The behavioral addiction profile (craving, tolerance, withdrawal, harm persistence) is analyzed against the neuroethical challenge of pathologizing a natural drive; the DF criterion resolves this via loss of choice rather than behavioral frequency.
Nine formal propositions are derived. Return paths include CBT, ACT, naltrexone as basin-depth reducer (P8), and relational reconstruction. The moral incongruence distinction — distress driven by conservative sexual values vs. genuine loss of control — is formally differentiated.