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Of course, kids get hooked onto that shit in their early 10s. By the time they are in their late teens or early 20s, porn already did the damage.

Because it's true. But that conflicts with self-agenda, because whatever is true, might not be okay with you. That's where spirituality comes into play.

Depends, what do you want out of your life? What are your prioritites at the moment? How aligned is your life to your highest values? What are your highest values anyways? You can't use somebody else's experience as a template, depends on where you are in life.

Like what assumptions specifically for "porn addiction" case?

@Basman Have you ever been addicted (okay, used compulsively) to porn? Because it can get much much worse than your 7-8h/day gaming thing. Nofap community has some silly idological side as well, but you can't just assume all those people doesn't really have an issue and are bullshiting. Millions of people are going through some really hard times because of porn induced issues and are desparate for help. It's no way the same thing as compulsive gaming. Not in the same ballpark. Not to mention the struggle that some of the spouses / partners go through when their partner has compulsive porn habits. https://www.reddit.com/r/loveafterporn/ Just read some posts here. You'll get some idea of what I'm referring to.

Yes, from personal experience, this can get real bad. Not to mention the shame and guilt that comes with it. There's higher awareness on this issue in culture today than it was 10-15 years ago. But I think more and more young guys are suffering with same issues, but they can't talk about it because it's a taboo. Mostly they get a wake up call when they are with a partner and can't perform. That's a turning point for most men, but even then, it's not that easy to get rid of it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/addiction This was literally my experience with over-consuming porn and compulsive masturbation to it. This is why I call it an addiction. Based on an experience, not based on a medical board definition.

Yes, even less then that, daily consumption not only makes you less functional, it tends to skew your perceptions a lot. You get desensitized to what you see on the screen (and I don't just mean vanilla erotica stuff, most people develop tendencies to go into some real hardcore shit because vanilla isn't enough anymore) and as a result real life becomes less exciting / dissapointing, which makes intimacy with a partner much harder. That's why I'm calling that an addiction and not something else. When you have that problem in your life and call it an addiction, that comes with a responsibility and recognition that yeah, this is not right, I need to fix it. When you don't recognize it as addiction, you might bullshit yourself that it's normal. Again, I'm talking about overconsumption, if some people goon occasionally and live a happy healthy life, that's fine I guess. No moralizing here.

How would you define an addiction? What is an addiction?

That's what 95% people told me, I think it's just a common way of expressing condolences. But my questioning mind was like, "how the fuck can you know that?", so it doesn't affect me much. I saw it as their attempt to make me feel better so it was okay.

Something like this I guess

I don't think so, if we actually had a statistics on that, I'd expect no significant change, maybe even rise in rape, who knows. Sexual need is insatiable. It's not like rapist watches porn and he's satisfied.

From my experience, you only realize those shifts happened after months of abstinence. It just strucks you after couple months.

He started with shrooms.