Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

PORNOGRAPHY AND ED: How to know if you have a p*rn addiction?

2 Oct 2022 · 0 min

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This short transcript excerpt is from a YouTube video discussing whether pornography use should be labeled an addiction. The speaker emphasizes that labels (addiction, hypersexuality) are less important than the real question: is the behaviour negatively impacting the person’s life? If so, it should be treated as an addiction for practical purposes.

Big discussion is porn. Can you be addicted to porn? Can you not be addicted to porn? Is it addiction? Is it a not addiction? And you know what I say, at least for my purposes, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you call it. You can call it an addiction, you can call it hypersexual, you can call it whatever you want. But at the end of the day, how is it impacting your life? Is it negatively impacting your life? Then it sounds like you may have an addiction to porn.