Dr. Wendy Walsh

That is, again, back to evolutionary psychology.

They don't want a woman who shared her eggs with the team because they could end up supporting another guy's baby.

Thank you.

That's a good one.

Okay.

So a reminder, I'm not a therapist.

I'm a psychology professor, but I do teach about different diagnoses.

Go on.

So codependency is not a diagnosis and it doesn't exist in the DSM.

Okay.

Neither dependent personality disorder does.

Neither does sex addiction.

And let me tell you why.

Because we have such a wide range of sexual behavior, psychologists want to be very careful not to pathologize any kind of sexual behavior.

You know, back in the 1970s, it was considered a pathology to be gay.

right?

So we're very careful in our community to ever label something in the world of sexuality as being dysfunctional.

Now let's focus on the word dysfunctional.

You know a lot about that because of addiction.

Something is not considered dysfunctional unless it affects your ability to have relationships with other people, to, um,