• probablyaCat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Addiction has a very specific clinical meaning as is stated in the article. Porn usage doesn’t fit that meaning. That isn’t to say that someone cannot compulsively masturbate or watch porn. But, again as stated in the article and a lot of other literature, it doesn’t have the same physiological or psychological effects as an addiction. And most of the people doing something compulsively like that are doing it as a symptom of an underlying problem (likely depression in many cases), not as the cause of the problem itself.

    In other words, crack and Xanax create a problem. Porn can be used in response to certain psychological problems.

    I like Terry Crews. Wholesome guy. But he isn’t a doctor or scientist.