Porn addiction linked with anxiety and depression - study
At the University of Sydney, research is taking place into effective treatment for porn addiction. Amongst the findings already reported:
- 70% of men and 30% of women view pornography online
- They come from all walks of life: students, teachers, lawyers, health practitioners and priests
- There are a lot of issues related to family breakdowns
- Porn addiction coexists with anxiety and depression
According to Dr Gomathi Sitharthan, who is leading the study:
Viewing porn online becomes a major problem only when people become so preoccupied that they spend 16 to 18 hours a day doing nothing else but watching porn, with serious impacts on relationships, work, studies, and finance.
Only when? I'd suggest that guys who watch porn for 25 minutes a day can still develop issues, but there's no denying the negative impact on other aspects of their lives.
If you would like to participate in Dr Sitharthan's survey, an online version can be found here
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Is porn addiction a chemical
Is porn addiction a chemical addiction? Does porn creates a chemical addiction to it?
YES! Good question I think
YES! Good question I think the jury is still out on this one. There are people who claim porn is an addiction but I'm definitely NOT convinced myself, I personally would describe having a serious porn habit more as a compulsion (compulsive behavioral patterns), or Obsession, or ritual. Either way I don't feel calling a porn habit an addiction is very helpful it has such massively negative associations in the mind of the public, and if you treat somebody as an addict when they are not then that's bound to influence the outcome in terms of weather the person gets free from porn or not?
**I do think that porn usage is definitely influenced or fueled by our own bodily reactions & sexual reactions & yes these in tern do release hormones & chemicals in the brain. So you could say that porn use (a porn habit) is an attachment to the release of those hormones. It can be likened to sports people who get an endorphin rush (high) from frequent exercise or training sessions or marathon runners.
I think its VERY important
I think its VERY important and very valuable to try and take a step backwards and to try and understand porn in a wider context. Meaning that on this website we tend to be dealing with the individual's experience of having a struggle with porn use. But porn also has a much wider impact on the whole of society and its very easy to forget this or just loose sight of this altogether.
Porn definitely impacts on societies wider views of relationships between male & female, it especially impacts on young girls & young teenage boys i.e. those at or going through puberty. Porn has had a strong impact on mainstream culture like never before, we see images or film content we would have never been exposed to in the past. You cannot fail to start to questioning if being exposed to such adult or explicit content is a good thing or a bad thing. Does help young people & people in general terms feel better or worse about themselves if they view such material, remember pornography is highly paradoxical in nature but also highly questionable morally speak too. Which is why porn remains such a contentious topic of discussion.
**for example does porn help educate people about sexuality & sexual relations or does it lead to distorted ideas of how we should relate to each other sexually or between the sheets.
**Also worth bearing in mind is that porn not only has influence on our culture but our capitalistic society means porn is driven by making money & profits. Mega profits at that too!!!
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