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Pornography Addiction
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Pornography Addiction Symptoms
Pornography Addiction Treatment
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Not surprisingly, there are any number of mental health professionals and web forums available to the person who believes he or she is struggling with pornography. The differences they will find from one to the next include the approach, terms and definitions used, and possibly the presentation of pornography or masturbation in a moral context. The reader is encouraged to contact therapists or psychologists prior to seeking treatment in order to ascertain whether or not he and a given therapist have conflicting philosophies that might inhibit successful treatment.
Ideally, someone concerned with their viewing of pornography is encouraged to give it careful consideration and to pursue the issue if he or she believes it to be problematic. However, labeling themselves ‘addicts’ is another matter, one best left to mental health professionals.
Addiction is a multi-faceted disease that makes discernable physiological changes to the brain, driving addicts into repetitive, temporarily rewarding behavior despite increasingly negative consequences across a broad range of categories. On removal of the stimulus, addicts can not function with any sense of normalcy. Successful recovery from the complexity of a true addiction will often involve a professionally tailored plan featuring medical, psychosocial and nutritional elements.
As a consequence of this definition, it is no longer enough for proponents of any number of alleged ‘addictions’ to make their case with behavioral links to drug abuse. They now must seek out and cite, as evidence of addiction, instances of physiological alteration resulting from the abuse of their chosen cause. Without this link, credibility is impossible.
The research community follows a strict protocol to establish these links. With regard to pornography, no such link has been established. If one is cited, the reader can often find political or personal motives lurking behind it since pornography is a hot-button topic that has been at the center of a much wider First Amendment debate since before even Playboy’s 1953 premiere.
The only ostensible consensus among health care professionals is that the viewing of pornography can develop into compulsive behavior that may, in some people, affect other aspects of their life.
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