Playboy magazine decided to stop displaying naked women in their magazines because anyone can access such photo and images through the internet. Throughout the Western world today, you can find virtually anything you want, effortlessly and anonymously, including porn. With 1 out of 8 online searches geared towards porn and with an estimated 40 million people using porn regularly, porn addiction is becoming a serious problem that is destroying intimacy between couples and mirroring very closely the ills of drug addiction.
The Role of Porn Addiction in Divorce
Porn addiction wreaks havoc on sexual intimacy among couples and is a significant factor in divorce. Among 68% of couples where one person was struggling with porn addiction, one or both had lost interest in having sex with each other. Surveyed lawyers have claimed that in 56% of divorce cases, porn addiction has played a critical role in separation. Often, porn addicts run the risk of acting out their fantasy from what they see on the screen—in the form of promiscuity. According to a study found in Social Science Quarterly, internet users who engaged in an extramarital affair were three times more likely to have an online Internet porn addiction.
How is Porn Addiction Similar to Drug Addiction?
Although porn doesn’t come in the form of a pill and can’t be ingested or snorted like drugs, porn lights up the reward center of the brain. Pornography over-stimulates the neurochemical in the body called dopamine. Over time, a porn addict will build up a high tolerance, much like a drug addict to a drug, and will be under-stimulated and resistant to the pleasure derived from it. Individuals suffering from porn addiction may even substitute porn for sexual intercourse with their partner. Porn addiction may cause an individual to seek out stronger stimulation for a greater fix. Their tastes become insatiable and increasingly more difficult to please.
Porn Addiction Treatment
If you’re struggling with a porn addiction and feel that it may be compromising the intimacy of your marriage, you may benefit from The Nelson Method.
You may never know with absolute certainty how devastating the effects of your porn addiction can be until it’s too late. Don’t alienate the people in your life that love you the most. Addiction treatment can help set you on the path to a fulfilling and healthy life, free from the bondage to porn or any other addiction. Call Roy Nelson Healing today.
