• technohippie@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    There are a ton of porn addicts it is not just a moral problem. There are whole communities trying to leave behind porn, they are not that hard to find them. Most of people there started to consume porn as kids. I know because I was in one of them.

    I also think and this is just my opinion based on my experience, there is some relation with the huge amount of incels and porn addiction.

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      6 days ago

      Based on my reading, porn addiction isn’t a real medical condition and is largely driven by internalized or external stigma around porn usage. Usually, but not always stemming from a religious worldview that shames people for masturbating or having an interest in sex outside of the context of heterosexual marital procreation.

      There could be small numbers of people who truly have an unhealthy relationship with porn, but if so, they are greatly outnumbered by the people I described above, such that I haven’t found research on their experiences.