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Porn addiction definitely is a real addiction seeing as there are plenty of non-religious people and people of various religions who prefer to actually be able to live their life rather than be horny all the time.
No it’s not. I am not an expert, but porn addiction is not a recognized diagnosis. According to research the main thing people with so called porn addiction share is a feeling that the behavior they are engaging in js immoral or unhealthy. The morality conflict is in the mind is the issue.
Masturbation is healthy and good for the body. To solve the morality issue either stop masturbating or accept your behavior.
Basically, as I understand it. Porn addiction is not a real addiction because there is no correlation between the amount of porn consumed and the feeling that one is addicted.
But there is a correlation between people who feel they have porn addiction and the amount of religiosity they have or believe in, regardless of the amount of porn they consume.
It’s a difficult subject to talk about because of the strong feelings and morality issues that people feel are real.
But (edited: respect to) your religion. Masturbation is healthy and good, and porn is not going anywhere regardless of how you or your religion feel about it morally. Porn addiction is a made up thing by people who feel bad about masturbating.
The DSM doesn't determine the truth. It is just an arbitrary grouping of symptoms in a book.
Unhealthy doesn't mean just physically. Porn can definitely be mentally unhealthy.
Water is healthy and good for the body, drowning is not.
What? How does that not make something an addiction. First of all, because someone could have misconceptions about how much others consume, someone could think wanting to eat a candy bar every day makes them addicted to sugar, while someone else could crave and drink 3 2Ls a day and think they're not addicted. And second, yeah, because addiction is based not on quantity but on impact. Someone could be healthy and drink a few glasses of wine every day, someone else could be unemployed and pawn their child's bed to buy wine to drink those few glasses. One of those at least indicates an addiction.
Again, there are a not of non-religious people who feel they are addicted to porn.
I am a gay agnostic. I prefer to spend time with my partner rather than waiting for him to fall asleep and looking at porn. I prefer to spend time with my parents when I visit them rather than staying in bed for hours after I wake up looking at porn.
Yeah wtf? That's the explanation and some people are up voting it?
I think being horny all the time is part of the human condition.
Not for many people
There are always exceptions for sure.
If there are tens of millions of exceptions I wouldn't call it part of the human condition