ABSTRACT
There are apparently sixty-eight million search engine requests for pornography and over four million websites, which are all part of a huge industry whose profits have outstripped those of Hollywood and the music industry. Because they can then fast forward to more exciting material, the Internet hastens and perpetuates arousal and is responsible for a rapid growth in the numbers of potential sex addicts who are losing the ability to control their usage of porn, sex, or masturbation. There were sexually explicit paintings on the walls of houses of Pompeii because people, mainly men, have always used graphic images of bodies and people having sex as a stimulus to masturbation. Addiction to pornography thrives in the consumer’s compulsive need for novelty, and, because it is more exciting than satisfying, images quickly become threadbare in their power to arouse and stimulate. With the erosion of willpower, their ability to resist diminishes, because craving feels like grief and grief is separation anxiety.
