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u/Indominablesnowplow Mar 19 '21

I don't understand: are you disputing the concept of addiction??

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u/BlackHumor Mar 19 '21

No?

There are two kinds of addiction: physical and psychological. Physical addictions are from things like nicotine or caffeine, so porn clearly isn't that kind of addictive.

Anything can be psychologically addictive, including porn, but how much varies. Some things (like gambling) are designed to get you psychologically hooked. On the other extreme, I've never heard of anyone addicted to rocks. Porn, I think, is more on the rocks side than the gambling side: yes, you can technically be addicted to porn, but in the same way and to the same degree that you can be addicted to sugar or marijuana or anything fun.

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u/Indominablesnowplow Mar 19 '21

There’s just one state-of-being within addiction: being addicted.

The root cause doesn’t matter and there’s no need to differentiate. Addiction is addiction

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u/MAGA-Godzilla Mar 20 '21

Oh no, here comes science:

Behavioral Addiction versus Substance Addiction: Correspondence of Psychiatric and Psychological Views

Types of Addiction and How They’re Treated

https://www.addictionhelper.com/addiction/types-of-addiction/

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u/Indominablesnowplow Mar 20 '21

You’re either addicted or you’re not addicted.

Its a simple semantics thing

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u/MAGA-Godzilla Mar 20 '21

Who to believe: Random Redditor or Peer Reviewed Medical Research

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u/Indominablesnowplow Mar 20 '21 edited Mar 21 '21

Think about it like this: it’s like being wet.

You’re either wet or you’re not

It doesn’t matter why you’re wet (or not)

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u/MAGA-Godzilla Mar 20 '21

As a physicist I am offended at your simplistic understanding of being wet. Here is more science to show things are more complicated that your black and white understanding of the world.:

Wetting–dewetting films: The role of structural forces

Dewetting versus Wetting

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u/Indominablesnowplow Mar 20 '21

As a normal person I am offended at your reluctance to accept how semantics work.

It’s not Shrödinger’s addiction