I have helped many clients with porn addiction and these great results were achieved by my not only helping the client see how their porn addiction disorder lies to them, but also how society lies about pornography. I bring porn addicted clients to a comfortable and confident place of insight into their disorder, and clients have the realization that they are now free, and can do so much more with their life now that they are in control. The issue of whether porn addiction is “real” is being debated. Porn addiction is definitely a behavioral addiction, that is clear. In any event, porn addiction is an obsessive compulsion to view pornographic material as well as a failure to stop oneself from doing so even in the face of consequences. It is obvious that the people watching porn in the “addictive” style feel and act more in line with drug users than any other group.

Mental Health professionals see many men, or at least the partners of these men, identify these men as suffering from a porn addiction, so the debate as to it being “real” can rage on, while I simply help those suffering. People addicted to porn have symptoms. They attempt to stop, have many failures to stop, go through symptoms of withdrawal that substance users experience, such as preoccupation once “triggered”, negative consequences, progression into more extreme material, progression into more time at this activity, progression into more devices this is done on, progression into more abandoning family/social/healthy activities, irritability when has to do without this behavior, and loss of interest with sexual partner.

Pornography addiction can and does harm relationships, the addict has little use for a real partner. The partner paradoxically “owns” some of the addicts behavior and then has some negative views of self that have to be addressed. Vocational loss is the second if not primary destruction that porn addicts face. This writer has seen countless men who have ruined careers with both legal and illegal pornography, and an untreated porn addict is a work disaster just waiting to happen.