whether you christian or not, Research indicates that pornography can be extremely addictive. Pornography conditions a person to respond emotionally and sexually to a self-centered, artificial world. Many online relationships are similar to pornography in that they are not based in reality: what individuals read and see about people, relationships, and sex is distorted.
Viewing pornography can distort realistic views of healthy sexuality, lead to the objectification of women, and promote sexual gratification as a top emotional priority.
Every person finds ways to deal with the stress, anxiety, fear, boredom, and insecurity in their life. An addict is a person who has used addictive activities or substances as a way to deal with these things. Because pornography is readily accessible and can serve as a way to cope with anxiety, fear, boredom, etc., it often is used.
This use can easily escalate into addiction.
Addiction
The person finds he compulsively views pornography.
Escalation
The addicted person seeks progressively harder core pornography to get the same effect.
Desensitization
Tolerance increases to progressively explicit material.
Acting Out Sexually
The person seeks to act out fantasies viewed in the pornography (prostitution, adultery, etc.).
Pornography is often used as a way to deal with negative emotions and to cope with life’s problems, just as alcohol or illicit drugs might be abused.
It conditions the participant into having a sexual deviancy and/or disturbing a bonded relationship with a spouse or girlfriend.
A frequent side effect is that it also dramatically reduces the capacity to love, have friendship, affection, caring, and other normal healthy emotions and traits. Their sexual side becomes in a sense dehumanized. Many develop an “alien ego state” (or dark side), whose core is antisocial lust, devoid of most values. In time, the “high”” obtained from pornography becomes more important than real life relationships.
Lust is the opposite of human intimacy; it’s a self-indulgent fantasy which separates the sex from emotional connection. It is always insatiably ‘hungry’ and the addict will risk family, job, and church to indulge in this hunger.
Pornography is extremely addictive. Regularly viewing pornography can destroy the ability to experience healthy and empathic relationships with others. It almost always leads to couple/marital disharmony, sometimes divorce or the breaking up of other intimate relationships.
Because pornography involves emotional, chemical, and physical stimulation, it can reset the brain in such a way that normal, healthy sexual experiences become unsatisfying and unfulfilling. Increasingly extreme or deviant sexual acts are often required to bring about sexual satisfaction. As a result, pornography addiction frequently destroys healthy marital relationships and can lead to sexual acting out with self and others or other immoral behavior......
the above is the view of the corrections, justice depts. The polce, medical, Pysc units around the world and of course associated 'licensed' councilers
The above just about describes every person in prison, and many others outside too, and many christians.
