San Francisco marriage and family therapist Julian Redwood, who specializes in treating patients with pornography addiction, says the biggest problem is that there is a physiologically addictive nature to porn and all sexually addictive behavior. People build up a tolerance and need more and more stimulation to achieve the same high. “So someone might start by looking at images of a normal heterosexual couple having sex and then move on to watching bestiality or sex with children. People push their edge.”
Sexualized culture
Twenty percent off all Internet porn involves children, according to a 2003 study.
“Online porn is so much about the hunt,” Redwood adds, which is part of why people spend so many hours at it, at the expense of their jobs, family, social life and sleep. They keep searching for the image or video that is going to turn them on. It’s similar to the drug addict going out to score the drug, or someone into prostitutes cruising the red-light district. “But there are lots of people who would never go to a prostitute who engage in Internet porn.”
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