Basman

Bro, these people are terrible. So much insecurity, victim mindset and lack of communication. Imagine secretly tracking your spouses phone...

How much about it you judge as bad and something to feel guilty about. How value ladden judging something as an "addiction" is. That's why medically there are very strict standards for something to be considered an addiction to avoid bias. They way most anti-porn advocates use the term is to mask (though maybe not deliberately) their religiosity. And surprise surprise, the biggest predictor of having a "porn addiction" is religiosity. Most of this anti-porn stuff is conformist nonsene. Also, illustrates how religion conditions people to have low self-esteem by setting impossible standards. There's nothing unnatural with the inclination to jerk off to porn, which is why culturally religious dudes are so vocally against. They feel guilt but can't help themselves, so they externalize the issue.

I thought you where gooning Red Dead. Forgot how long ago that was lol.

For one, it's masking how value ladden judgement of what constitutes "porn addiction" usually is. How much guilt plays a part.

When talking about excessive porn use, and excessive media use in general, people tend to ignore the historical and socialogical trends that brought us here in the first place. Like the untethering of social bonds, the difficulty of getting a job, work itself lacking dignity in the modern age, lack of meaningful aspirations (and by extension too much free time), etc. Maybe porn is just the friends we didn't make along the way.

Which is why it's unserious. It's not true. "Addiction" is easily used to sneak in all sorts of assumptions. It's not just semantics it's epistemological.

Which is also reflective of a lot of internet users. The misuse of medical speak and unbacked claims of the negatives (misinformation) of porn is trying to sound more credible than they really are. It's really about latent cultural religious values and conformity in my opinion. I'm going to sound like a broken record, but why is porn uniquely worse than gaming? Nearly everything you attribute to being bad about porn can be equally true of gaming. But only one recieves this kind of energy.

You can call it a compulsion. It's like the word "narcissist". It's an exact term. Using it flippantly is unserious and a misuse of serious medicial terms in my opinion.

I believe most anti-porn advocacy is religious and ideological in nature but take on a "scientific" approach since the ideological approach is a non-starter nowadays. Again, 8 hours of gaming doesn't get the same level of critique of as 8 hours of porn despite the former being way more common. Fight The New Drug is a prime example. It's a Utah based organization (mormon) that preaches anti-porn advocacy using pseudoscience, misinformation and correlatory conclusions. That is an ideological driven org masking itself as rigorous and truthful. The Nofap org is similair, but more akin to a grift in my opinion. The owner Alexander Rhodes would sue people who criticized his work and he trademarked "nofap" as a silencing tool. Obviously because it's an untruthful org that doesn't want to be exposed.

No respected medical board defines it as an addiction. They have precise standards for what is considred an addiction. "Porn addiction" is a pseudoscience. It's more common to spend that kind of time gaming, but you don't see moral panic over that to nearly the same degree. Functionality alone is way to broad and iffy as a definition. It's not functional to be on a forum 1-3 hours every day either. I guess you have an addiction and need psychiatric help. I'd argue that excessive media consumption is more likely symptomatic of something underlying then the cause. Someone who has 8 hours to burn has issues and doesn't have a life. That's not only a psychological issue, but also sociological and historical (untethering of bonds, stare of the job market, etc.). The urge here is to blame porn for a bunch of issues that aren't directly related to porn itself.

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions

It's factually not an addiction. This is what I mean by exaggerating.

If you wait even longer you can get it for a good discount as well. That's what I'm probably going to end up doing. Buy it for 15 something on a Steam sale 4-6 years from now.

You can't become addicted to porn. You can have a compulsion, but those are always more psychological in nature.

I can't find any solid evidence of that which isn't underlined by conformist cultural attitudes. The opportunity cost of spending thousands of hours on entertainment is much greater overall. Your life satisfaction is contingent to a large extent to how effective you are at executing in my opinion. Don't dismiss so flippantly the impact thousands of hours on entertainment and social media actually is.