We all get in the mood every now and then. But did you know that there is a diagnosis where you are horny all the time? There are very few who have Persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD) – but you may relate?
That’s how 23-year-old Amanda McLaughlin, from Michigan, feels. She is simply too sexually aroused to be able to work – and must ask her husband to do the deed every single day, she explains in the BBC documentary series Living Differently.
It was at the age of 13 that Amanda McLaughlin began to notice that something was wrong. After hitting puberty, she masturbated significantly more than the average teenager.
Her family thought she had a sex addiction, and her mother regrets not taking her daughter’s problems more seriously, she says to the BBC.
Eventually, Amanda was diagnosed with PGAD or Persistent genital arousal disorder. It was a relief – finally, there was a reasonable explanation for her incredible desires.
The disorder makes you get aroused for long periods of time and stops orgasms from relieving the horniness.
“It’s not fun to be aroused all the time. It feels like you are about to orgasm, and then it never goes away. Would you like to be on the verge of orgasm all the time? I don’t think so,” says Amanda in the documentary.
She takes over 30 different medications to reduce the symptoms and alternates between sitting on warm pillows and ice bags. Her enormous desires take up most of the 23-year-old’s life.
In the future, Amanda hopes, with treatment, to be able to work, have children and even drive a car.
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