Is video pornography addicting?

Question

Is video pornography addicting?

Answer 1

Yes it is. The bad thing about it isn't that it's addictive, the bad thing about it is that in the long term, it takes the pleasure aspect of it away and replaces it with an obsession and like all addictions the repetition of exposure feeds the addiction but sadly destroys the pleasure. Who wants to take the most beautiful of human experiences and take the pleasure out of it? Even if the initial reaction seems to heighten the experience, is it worth losing the pleasure aspect in the long term?
I was watching a chicken wing eating contest on TV and they told the contestants that if they ate 7 pounds of the famous delicious wings that it was on the house. All these young men were lined up and they were saying that eating a ton of their favorite food and then not having to pay for it was a no brainer. Well the guys enjoyed the first half a pound, but you could begin to see disgust on their faces as they got more. After a while some were throwing up. No one won the contest because they didn't want to eat the rest. Eating the beloved chicken wings had lost its pleasure. All of the guys agreed that they weren't going to eat any chicken wings anytime soon. The same thing (actually worse)happens with porn addiction; you end up losing your "sexual appetite" and that's not cool.
Hope that helped. Good for you that you're aware of the possibility and are asking before getting to a point of no return.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Not any more so than any other human pleasure.

"Porn" as you call it is erotica. Learn the word. Actually, I tend to think of "porn" as lower quality erotica.

Erotica has been around since the Greeks and Romans. It can be sculpture, painting, photos, videos, verbal only (phone sex, recordings) or written (stories, novels).

Now, both men AND women enjoy erotica. In general, men may be more visual than women. I say MAY be.

My wife enjoys visual images, too, and has her own preferences, as I have mine.

There are men in this world that are totally threatened by women's sex toys (vibrators, dildos, etc.), feeling that a woman (their wife, gf) should receive pleasure only from THEM. That is just pathetic. They have some serious self-image/penis issues to deal with.

There are women in this world that are totally threatened by men viewing erotica, believing that their only arousal/satisfaction should come from their vagina/mouth/hand. They are equally pathetic.

And then, there are couples such as ourselves (many of them) that enjoy a mature, fully-developed sex life.

We both masturbated before we met. When we dated and got married, we had sex like rabbits in heat, but we still enjoyed solosex.

Within a year, we discovered the liberation and joy of acknowledging our full needs; that solosex was not "inferior" to PIV (penis-in-vagina) sex or any other kind.

Each kind of sexual arousal and satisfaction is unique and we wanted our full share of each.

There was no denying the fact that we had as rich and satisfying a sex life as ANY of our other friends, single or married.

Now....36 years later, many of those married couples are divorced, and we're still doing it like rabbits; not as many times a week, but still doing it and it's still hot as hell.

Answer 4

This is more time than I do it. I try not to masturbate when there is a chance of being found out. Still love to work it.

Answer 5

yeah, its better not to start....the other guy is right, you will want nastier and nastier stuff and pretty soon you can't find anything bad enough. It can get to be an obsession.

Answer 6

Yes it is very addicting.
It is also an escalating addiction.
Soon you need to see nastier stuff.
"Hitting the spot" or "head" just is not enough.
It becomes boring.
I know.......

Answer 7

Yes it is like DRUGS be careful.

Answer 8

the other guy was def right......it does take more and more to work and soon nothing is exciting

Answer 9

Don't know from experience but have heard it is.

Answer 10

heck yeah...
they had a documentary about that