Dr. Robi: Is Internet Pornography Consumption Addictive?

Dr. Robi Sonderegger, Director of Family Challenge Australia and child advocate, tackles the question of whether pornography consumption can be addictive. For further reading and comments, please read Robi's post on our blog, http://blog.internetsafety.com/2009/12/11/awareness-friday-with-dr-robi-is-in....
Cited study, Dèttore, D., & Giannelli, A. (2008). Explorative survey on the level of online sexual activities and sexual paraphilias. Abstracts of the 9th Conference of the European Federation of Sexology, 17(1), p. 15; Sunderwirth, S., Milkman, H., & Jenks, N. (1996). Neurochemistry and sexual addiction. Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, 3:1, 22-32

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[FakeDrRS]

So the question is does sexual response mimic drug responses or the other way around.

The problems with drugs is that they cause brain damage resulting in requiring more of the drug and furthering the damage. Results of requiring more drug is it consumes the person and only motivation is getting more drug.

Sexual response is fulfilling and because its natural the damage is not resulting and only boredom causes people to seek change in stimulation.

Drugs mimic natural pleasure responses.