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Is there such a thing as a Pornography Addiction? It depends on which ‘expert’ you ask, since there is no consensus in any credible community of health professionals. One need only browse the web to find just how divisive the subject is.

In a WebMD feature , sex therapist Louanne Cole Weston said she sees three chief reasons why people view pornography in the first place:

to see their fantasies acted out
to avoid intimacy in a relationship
to aid masturbation.

It would seem that the majority of people who watch pornography, either on TV or online, have little trouble walking away from it, while others might spend hours and hours and be unable to walk away so easily. Colloquially, these people may self-diagnose themselves as ‘porn addicts’, using the term loosely without taking into consideration its implications.

Whatever the case, it is hard to dispute that the internet has at the very least, facilitated our ability to look at pornographic images by removing some of the restrictions—cultural or physical—that once inhibited that ability. As a result, the debate over the relative merits and dangers of pornography has exploded, bringing with it like glacier debris a variety of issues relating to legality, morality, and of course, addiction.

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