Sudden increase in libido, should I be worried?

21y/o straight male here who has always had a high sex drive and been open to most mainstreams kinks but lately I feel as if I'm losing control over it.

Like I said my sex drive has always been fairly high, masturbation is usually a daily occurance and since losing my virginity (at 17) I've never went more than a month or so without sex. When in a relationship I've always ensured sexual contact of some sort 3-4 times a week with multiple sessions per visit. I've never seen anything wrong with this as most of my ex's have had an equally high sex drive and it's never caused me any harm.

However, recently my current girlfriend moved away but we decided to stay together and try the long distance thing. We now see each other for a weekend once every few weeks and if anything the sex has gotten better, we've started experimenting more and have since discovered the delicious world of cam sex. The downside is that I feel in an almost constant state of arousal when I'm not with her. As time has gone by this has become more and more of an issue and I'm starting to feel like sex has taken over my life.

I've started developing more hardcore kinks and propositioning my girlfriend with them but I'm worried that I'm pushing her limits and that she's too vanilla to fulfill my sexual desires. Also it seems like our relationship has turned into more of a '###$ buddy' setup because I'm so preoccupied with sex that I have no time or energy left for romance.

This increase in libido has also affected other areas of my life. All I want to do recently is read about kinks and explore my sexuality which has led to less time dedicated to the hobbies and interpersonal relationships I used to care about.

All I want to know is if there is any known cause for this phenomena, is this my minds response to something wrong in my life? And are there ways to counter it before it has a legitimate effect on my life? Bar that how do I accept this as a part of who I am and learn to at least put a lid on it when necessary?

Zola, there are a variety of psychological conditions that can dramatically increase libido (during hypomania, mine has known to go through the roof). But nothing you have said tells me you have those maladies- at the risk of disappointing you, you sound like a more or less normal guy to me, lol.

I basically don't believe in long-distance relationships. Not saying they can't work, but I've seen both men and women get pretty stressed out with them, with sex being only one factor that gets out of whack. The biggest concern I see in you is that sex is assuming too great a role in your life- it should be part of life, but it shouldn't be the only thing that interests you. The best advice I can give, other than being in closer proximity to your gf, is to try to cultivate interests aside from sex. Chess? Bicycling? Botany? Working with disabled or troubled children? Computer programming? Any one of those can be consuming interests that, while they won't replace libido (who'd want them to?), can at least counterbalance it in life.