A study shows that sex addicts get frightened by intimacy and are apparently are more timid about romantic relationships when compared to rest of the mass, a New Zealand study points out.

The poll includes more than 600 people who saw that the more the people indulged in aggressive compulsive sexual behavior the more they felt anxious and insecure about relationships and if they tried to get rid of getting involved emotionally to others.

Massey University, who did the honors, was performed by psychology honors student Karen Faislander under the close assistance of a practicing clinical psychologist and an academic specialist, which was considered to be one of a kind in New Zealand.

Faislander called sex addiction, to be a complex behavior and is being studied thoroughly as areas such as or depression.

She said, ‘The term "sex addict" first emerged in the early 1980s and there were 29 other terms in scientific literature that described the condition, including sexual compulsivity, excessive sexual desire disorder and hypersexuality.’

The most called after term is out-of-control sexual behaviors (OOSCH). "It's widely misunderstood and stigmatised," Faislander said. "There's no fixed cure for the same and work is being done on the same.