Understanding Porn Addiction (And The Role Of Technology)

It’s no secret that some porn is violent, but most people think that’s something different from mainstream pornography—something out on the fringe. Not all porn is the same, its defenders say. People can choose what they like, and if they’re into violent stuff, that’s their business, right?

Most studies of prevalence use a convenience sample. One of the studies of a convenience sample suggested that 17% of people who viewed pornography on the Internet met criteria for problematic clarification needed sexual compulsivity 6 A survey found that 20–60% of a sample of college-age males who use pornography found it to be problematic. 7 Research on Internet addiction disorder indicates rates may range from 1.5 to 8.2% in Europeans and Americans. 8 Internet pornography users are included in Internet users, and Internet pornography has been shown to be the Internet activity most likely to lead to compulsive disorders. 9 Status as addiction edit Neuroscience edit

A porn recovery program almost sounds like something that’s been made up. After all, you might ask, who gets addicted to porn? Unfortunately, porn addiction is a lot more common than many people think. An addict sees a video or stills, masturbates to it and then reaps the reward. Therefore, the images become associated with the feeling of orgasm. That’s a pretty powerful incentive, and it can lead to what’s known as a process addiction. This means that you end up watching porn compulsively. How Do I Know if I Really Need Help?
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I knew that I needed help to get out but I didn’t really want to get out. True I didn’t want to hurt my wife or have to deal with another episode like when she caught me before, but I still didn’t want to stop. The thing that finally changed my mind on that was the birth of my son. I began to truly try to break this habit, that is when I began to think of it as an addiction. I just wasn’t able to do it on my own. I continued to find myself going back to porn and masturbating.

Ley’s last point about Big Addiction trying to promulgate and prop up the concept of sex addiction to feed itself more patients/clients verges into conspiracy theory territory, but it touches on the fairly recent phenomenon of addiction and rehab becoming more culturally familiar. Labeling something an addiction seems to put a person’s behavior above the critical fray, and Ley’s overview of porn addiction should make us realize that the science of addiction is just that — science. Just because concern-trolling columnists write trend pieces about how prevalent porn is or how easy-access to porn is turning everyone into a porn-dependent hermit, doesn’t mean that porn is addictive in the same way that huffing sweet, sweet glue is addictive.