I also hate it when addictions are called “diseases.”
You won’t go through any physical withdrawal symptoms if you quit using porn. Oh you will probably miss it, perhaps pine and fret and fuss, but your body will not be going some sort of physical withdrawal like an alcohol or morphine addiction give you (which can physically kill you).
As for disease, cancer is a disease. The flu is a disease. Pneumonia is a disease. Addiction is done to one’s self on purpose through voluntary behavior, with perhaps the exception of the occasional sex slave who is forced on heroin or something to get her hooked so she’s enslaved for life.
Someone with cancer is a victim. Someone with an addiction may have some of my sympathy but it’s NOT the same thing.
“Voluntary behavior?’’ So all those years I was an active alcoholic was because I wanted to? Your ignorance on the nature of addiction is astounding.
Exactly! I hate to hear anything like that called a diease. I was diagnosed with type one diabetes at 9yo tht is a diease.Something you choose to do to yourself is a behavior not a diease.
(You won’t go through any physical withdrawal symptoms if you quit using porn.)
Yes you would. Pornography has been found to be as addictive as any of the better known addictions. However, unlike alcohol or cocaine addiction, it’s not mentioned at all in our culture (it would upset the pro-pornography left), so most people are not aware of its addictive nature until it is too late. I’m sure there are many addicts walking around saying “I can quit any time I want to”.
You may want to talk to a church group leader who helps people combat this type of addiction in order to get the facts.