Pornography Resources

Pornography addiction is defined as an addiction to, or dependence upon, pornography, characterized by obsessive viewing, reading, and thinking about pornography and sexual themes to the general detriment of the rest of one's life.
It has been observed that pornography addicts experience similar patterns of symptoms to those involved in physiological addiction to substances such as drugs or alcohol; for example, euphoria while taking the drugs, and physical and/or psychological problems when they attempt to quit, desensitization to the addictive substance, and the need to increase their dosage in order to maintain their euphoria.

Online pornography addiction involves pornography obtained via the Internet. This kind of pornography has been observed to be stronger, and more addictive, than ordinary pornography addiction because of the wide availability, increasingly hardcore subject matter, and the privacy that viewing online offers. In order to satisfy their addiction, addicts are said to regularly spend extended periods of time searching the internet for new or increasingly hardcore pornography.

Effects of pornography addiction

• Become desensitized to the material, no longer getting a thrill from what was once exciting
• Fantasize about acting out various pornographic scenes
• Become callous towards ordinary sexual relationships
• Become reclusive and attempt to hide the habit from family and friends
• View the opposite sex as sex objects
• View sex as being solely for the pleasure of himself or herself

Pornography leads to premarital sex, unprotected sex, prostitution, affairs and problems during marriage.