Serial cheater and sex addict says he wants Neuralink brain chip implant to save his marriage

A serial cheater asked Reddit users if he should be a 'Neuralink hamster' to rid himself of his constant need to be unfaithful to his wife.

The user who goes by Electronic-Camera277 said in a Reddit post that he hopes Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip implant can cure him of his endless bouts of infidelity to save his marriage.

Although serial cheating, otherwise known as sex addiction, is considered a disease, psychologists say it is something you can overcome with therapy – meaning a brain chip implant may not be the most effective way to stay faithful to your partner.

A Reddit user said he has been unfaithful to his wife more times than he can count and is considering the Neuralink brain chip implant to cure him of his infidelity

'Reddit is a hotbed for conversations and opinions on infidelity – it's one of the first platforms cheaters turn to for advice but the reaction and support is mixed,' Jessic Leoni, an infidelity expert at Illicitencounters.com, told Daily Star.

'There's no doubt Neuralink is some way off being a solution for serial cheating and treating addiction more generally – no matter how big Elon Musk's claims are.'

Neuralink successfully implanted its first chip last month as part of the PRIME study which aims to allow people with quadriplegia to control devices with their thoughts like opening an app, clicking, or moving a cursor up and down.

Neuralink's brain chip is currently being tested to treat people with quadriplegia 

'The device is designed to interpret a person's neural activity, so they can operate a computer or smartphone by simply thinking about moving – no wires or physical movement are required,' the company said.

Yet despite all the potential capabilities the Neuralink brain chip has, curing someone's mental health, and particularly their need for infidelity, is not one of them.

The Reddit user said he's cheated on his wife 'more than I can count,' and claimed he's had therapy to treat his sex addiction, but still finds it hard to stop.

This thought process led him to research and consider alternative treatments, he said, adding: 'I'm so desperate I'm even considering Elon Musk's Neuralink implant to help treat addiction.'

He then asked the Reddit community: 'Will my wife ever forgive me? Should I tell her? Should I be a Neuralink hamster/is it worth a shot?'

Elon Musk said he hopes the chip can eventually help regulate people's moods and cure disorders

Musk has boasted for years that his Neuralink brain chip could be used to regulate people's hormones and emotional well-being and could be an eventual breakthrough for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or treatment-resistant depression.

In 2020, the tech titan claimed the Neuralink chip does have the capability to control emotions and mood and could even be used to treat addiction.

A Twitter user asked Musk at the time: 'Can Neuralink be used to retrain the part of the brain which is responsible for causing addiction or depression?' The Independent reported.

Musk replied: 'For sure. This is both great and terrifying. Everything we've ever sensed, or thought has been electrical signals.

Despite a controversial history of animal testing , the first human has had a chip implanted by Elon Musk's company Neuralink 

'The early universe was just a soup of quarks and leptons. How did a very small piece of the universe start to think of itself as sentient?'

The reality is that the technology isn't there yet, and those seeking sexual addiction treatment, like Electronic-Camera277, should explore more effective and well-established methods like counseling and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBD).

CBD is the most common form of therapy for sex addiction because it helps the patient identify and process the thought patterns and beliefs that led them to this point.

But many Reddit users called out Electronic-Camera277, telling him not to blame his infidelity on 'sex addiction,' a thought that is shared by the Center for Positive Sexuality (CPS), the Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance (TASHRA), and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF).

The groups wrote in a 2017 statement that so-called sexual 'addictions' may result more from a person's cultural or religious belief than based on actual scientific data.

Elon Musk says first human patient implanted with a Neuralink brain-chip is moving a 'mouse around the screen just by thinking' after making a 'full recovery' 

Neuralink successfully implanted the 'Telepathy' chip on the patient last month, after receiving approval for human trial recruitment in September. 

The concept of sex addiction 'emerged in the 1980s as a socially conservative response to cultural anxieties,' the authors wrote, 'and has gained acceptance through its reliance on medicalization and popular culture visibility.'

Compulsive sexual behavior is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) – the reference guide for mental illnesses published by the American Psychiatric Association.

The APA rejected a proposal to include sex addiction (hypersexual disorder) in the DSM-5 manual, citing there 'was lack of evidence and the potential consequences of calling excessive sexual activity a 'pathology' (calling it a disease or disorder),' according to Cleveland Clinic.

Reddit users seemed to mirror this notion, with one writing: 'Each time you cheat on her you are making a conscious decision to do so.

'... You are out there meeting people, saving their numbers, going on dates, arranging locations, crafting lies to both your wife and the people you're meeting.

'It rarely just occurs or 'happens.'

While Electronic-Camera277 echoes the problems many others are facing and tries to turn to Neuralink for help, the reality is that brain chip implants are not and reportedly will not be the answer for some time.