I think it depends on the person, but, yes, that can be a thing.

I wonder why this comment is still gray and the rest are approved. Weird system!

Not at all. The study shows a response that differentiates what people experience as “addiction” or compulsion in terms of what is actually going on in the brain versus chemical addictions. It does not definitively say what is then going on with people who have trouble controlling their behaviors or how best to help…

Mmmm. No. It is an actual thing. Some people become so deeply dependent on it they can no longer perform with a partner. Psychologists are seeing a lot of young men with E.D. because porn is such a quick way to stimulate. It acts super quickly on neural pathways, and the user is in total control of the experience and…

Right, because I know people involved, and it’s something I never meant to think critically about but I’m now forced to, my reactions aren’t formulated in panic (although at first I will admit to high levels of WTF) but have kind of evolved over time. Even in this thread, almost everything is about whether it’s good…

I think that’s a really valid thing to think about too. They aren’t mutually exclusive. I just think that as people begin to perhaps actually know someone in the industry or an addict (I know both) their minds may shift a bit to think more critically about it. I know it changed things for me. A cigarette looks fun…

As porn becomes more ubiquitous, I suppose more and more people will know people who are affected by it in some of the negative ways too - porn addiction and actual participation in porn (which is particularly ruinous to most who choose it as a career - financially, physically, and emotionally). The spokespeople for…