Consultation of the porn addicted individual
There are more and more porn addicted men in Hungary. Surprising as it may seem, porn addiction, a widely known addiction has not yet been formally defined, described or treated. So I wrote an article about it of my Wikipedia.
I summon:
Porn addiction is an addictive or ompulsive disorderin which the individual feels intense anxiety and tension if he or she does not have access to pornographic content as often as possible: the individual's sexual life is effectively limited to viewing this content and the associated masturbation activity. This new addiction has spread into the 21st century with the rise of the Internet, which means that it has not yet been classified as a psychiatric or addictive disorder and has therefore not yet been given a BNO code.
Table of contents
1 Definition
2 Affected persons
3 Other features
4 Therapy
Definition
There is no official definition, but an example of a porn addict, defined by porn addiction, is someone who has spent at least an hour watching porn videos at least twice a week for the last six months and has not been willing to give up even temporarily. The repetition of the activity can of course be on a daily basis and, in extreme cases, even in public places (i.e. school, library, workplace).
Stakeholders
According to age
Consumption by purpose
The individuals most affected or most at risk of the disease are typically adolescent (13-19 years) or young adult (20-35 years) males, but it is also very common in middle-aged (35-55 years) and older people. They are most often single, but even when in a relationship they are often unable to break free from their addiction. Increasingly, the victims are also men in a relationship or marriage, but they are often childless. The porn addicted for individuals in general have no awareness of the disease.
There are two groups of dependent users:
1. stress reactive porn addict: they use porn content to relieve stress in the same way that others use sport or drink, cigarettes, drugs. Only while sport is strenuous, alcohol, tobacco, drugs cost money, porn is in many cases free, convenient and an immediate source of stress relief.
depressed porn addicts: in the absence of social relationships, they use adult films or interactive chat-sex rooms as a kind of substitute. Paradoxically, instead of improving their loneliness, they become even more isolated from other people and further away from existing or potential partners.
Other features
The means to satisfy porn addiction is usually a computer or smartphone with an internet connection. This addiction is therefore less of a threat to individuals without internet access, as it is obviously much more difficult and cumbersome to satisfy an addiction by obtaining movies exclusively from offline media than it is to develop one in the first place.
The way in which addiction is satisfied is typically one-sided, i.e. the individual watches videos alone without the involvement of others. However, there is also an increasingly common form of 'interactive' porn consumption, where the addict engages in some kind of online relationship with the porn actor, who in return pays money.
Therapies
As an emerging behavioural disorder, there is no clearly recommended therapeutic solution to the problem: some sexologists use the flooding technique, while others typically use total withdrawal.
In my own experience, the success of help lies in finding an individualised solution that takes into account the patient's personality, life history, current life situation, other problems, motivation and potential, rather than the above.
Having successfully consulted with a number of porn addicts, I decided to study the field in more depth. In May 2018, I finished my research on porn addiction, and I will publish the results in the blog section.
In the meantime, visit my forum for porn addicts, where you can read other people's stories and share your own. Click to go to the forum!
This article has also been published on the website of the Scientific Society of Sexology
