User:Danielletjm2001/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Sexual anorexia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
My first impression of the article was that it was rather short, so I knew I would have a lot of room to improve it, which will be incredibly helpful throughout the semester for this assignment. However, I have a lot of interest in anything revolving around sex and it seemed the most interesting to me out of the list of articles, especially since I had never heard of the term before.

Evaluate the article
One downfall to the article is that it is incredibly short and does not have a lot of information. Also, I understand that it was a term coined by one person, but from the article it looks as if that one person and maybe one or two others were the only people to actively use the term, so I think more research needs to go into that and the overall usage of the term. The citations at the end of the article prove that others have used it, though, and I see that those people aren't mentioned very much, so there needs to be more taken from the citations listed below the article and put in the "History of the term" section. Overall, the references look pretty reliable, but could probably use some more diversity.

Another issue I see with the article is the fact that under the "Causes" section, there's no mention of medication-related sexual dysfunction. For example, history of sexual assault is mentioned, but the sexual anorexia as a result of SSRIs or similar medications are not mentioned. Also, since there can be numerous causes, I think that there should be multiple subheadings underneath the "Causes" section in the future.

In the "Treatment" section, I think that the first paragraph needs to be moved and replaced, because it starts off with characteristics of sex addicts, which seems pretty unnecessary to the "Treatment" section and I personally believe it should be moved to the "Sexual addiction" section. Also, I'm not sure why the "Sexual addiction" section and "Social Phobia" section are capitalized differently; it's a small thing that I noticed that may need to be changed.

I think that the strongest part of the article is its introduction, where it defines the term, its origin, and how some psychologists have said that it shares characteristics of anorexia nervosa. The article takes a pretty neutral tone, but I think its language could be tweaked in some parts of the article to make it sound even more neutral.

I've noticed that there's not too much going on in the "Talk" page, but there are some comments that are similar to some of my critiques of the article.

Overall, I personally would not consider the article complete, and there is a lot of work that needs to be done before it could be considered a completed article. Additionally, I believe that images could potentially be added to the article, but I'm unsure of what type of images would look visually appealing while also serving to assist its audience in learning about the subject.