Stages of porn addiction

Pornography is simply the representation of sexual behavior in books, pictures, statues, motion pictures, and other media that is intended to cause sexual excitement. Pornography has a strong tendency to become addictive to the user. It appeals to the viewer's libido (urge for sex) and spontaneously arouses the desire for more in the viewer.

Sex is easily the most discussed topic on the internet with several thousands of sites devoted to the topic of pornography, this certainly leaves the viewer with several options to explore if the desire to view porn arise. Tons of money is spent on pornography every year which has unsurprisingly seen the industry grow to become a billion dollar industry. Pornography is no doubt a popular topic as far as internet searches are concerned. It has been established that pornography has the tendency to be addictive, how then can know when he's beginning to get addicted to porn? Here are the stages of Porn Addiction;

 5 Stages of Pornography Addiction

1. Early exposure. Most guys who got addicted to porn started early. They see the stuff when they are very young, and it gets its foot in the door and they begin to get attached to it and then finds it difficult to let go of the habit.
2. Addiction. Later comes addiction.     This is the stage when you keep coming back to porn. It becomes a regular part of your life. You're hooked. You can't quit. You wanted to spend one hour viewing porn, but you are still watching it four hours later.
3. Escalation. After a while, escalation begins. You start to look for more and more graphic porn. You start using porn that would have disgusted you when you started. Now it excites you.
4. Desensitization. Eventually, you start to become numb. Even the most graphic, degrading porn doesn't excite you anymore. You become desperate to feel the same thrill again but can't find it. You begin to broaden your horizon and begin to look out for degrading forms of sexual depiction like sado and masochistic sex videos.
5. Acting out sexually. At this point, many men and women make a dangerous jump and start acting out sexually. If masturbation had not begun in the earlier stages, at this stage it's almost inevitable that masturbation will set in. This is the stage where the user/viewer moves from the paper and plastic images of porn to the real world.

Pornography can be a very lethal Toxin. Addiction to pornography is very stubborn and difficult to break, infact its addiction is more difficult to break than drug addiction. The main defenses against pornography is close family life, a good marriage and good relations between parents and children, coupled with deliberate parental monitoring of internet use as a measure to guard against addiction to it from childhood. Victims of porn addiction should seek help from a psychologist or therapist as the case may be. They can get a trusted individual to confide in and get a diary to document their progress in breaking the menace.