Internet Pornography Addiction

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Pornography on the Internet is affordable, available, and abundant. One can easily find websites for viewing this type of material. Although the reports on the actual number of these sites vary, the availability and accessibility of the sites are rarely disputed. Some critics of this form of expression or form of obscenity believe that the pornography itself can cause pornography addictions. Internet pornography does not produce addicts, but rather the propensity to be a pornography addict already exists within individuals by the time they reach adulthood and sustains itself within those individuals.

Pornography addiction is a psychological problem that develops within certain individuals. It is a difficult addiction to understand and overcome. The conditions that lead to the development of pornography addiction are not present in all individuals. To understand the addiction, one must learn the nature of sexual addictions, because it is a type of sexual addiction that is acted out with the viewing of pornography.

The ranges of sexually addictive behaviors are various. Sexual addictive behaviors include, but are not limited to compulsive masturbation, multiple affairs, unsafe sex, sexual anorexia, multiple or anonymous partners, pornography viewing, phone or cybersex, voyeurism, and exhibitionism (National, Sex). Despite the differences in the acting out behaviors, sexual addictions all have the same common denominator in their origins and aspects in relation to their developments. Thus, the underlying causes are the same.

Complicating the problem of sexual addictions is cross addiction. The sexual addict will often incorporate other acting out behaviors in their addictive processes. A pornography a...

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