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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ thanks for providing the link.  I don’t know enough about addiction pathways to know whether there are multiple addiction pathways or just the one mentioned in the article.  
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Honestly, I’m not that interested in the sex addiction label but more interested in the changes that habitual use of pornography can induce.  I think there are biological and potentially behavioral (expectation of porn type sex in a relationship) implications.  [/b]

Also, previous link included links to multiple studies and so can be considered a review whereas the Lehmiller link only includes one article.  I’ve not previously liked much of lehmiller’s posts on his blog.  I don’t find it to be very informative but that’s just a single person’s perspective.[/quote]

I think that's fair. I get a little chippy when "addiction" gets thrown around. Some people use the term in good faith. But in the porn context, it's been polluted by moral scolds who don't really care about whether it's addiction or not; they like that it's a scary term that will make people more reluctant to use term. It's a fear-based argument masquerading as science. (I don't at all think that's where you're coming from, PP.)

I always wonder what "porn-type sex" means to various people. For me, it's not that my partner is some kind of zero body fat, surgically enhanced model or engaging in improbable acrobatics. It's the unabashed enthusiasm for sex that I find attractive.

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