Five Types of Porn Addicts
There are five types of porn addicts. By learning how to identify each of the five types of porn addiction, you will gain a better understanding of recovering from pornography.
1. Brain Buzz Porn Addicts
This type of porn addict is literally taking the highest level of endorphins and opiates that sex gives and attaching them to the object of pornography instead of a real person. These endorphins and opiates are like "brain cookies." They give your brain a release of chemicals which make you feel good and block your pain receptors.
The highest chemical release your body produces is an orgasm. You attach to what you look at during your orgasm. Simple right? Remember Pavlov’s dog? Ring the bell, feed the dog. Porn is the bell and you are the dog. You taught your brain to salivate, hunger for, and desire porn.
2. Brain Balancer Porn Addicts
This type of porn addict has an actual chemical imbalance in their brain. It can be a chemically based depression, manic depression, any bipolar disorder, or cyclothymic disorder. If you think you might have one of these conditions, [see your doctor for medical assistance].
Here are this person’s plight and experience. They have this brain imbalance as a teen. They don’t know it. They find porn and masturbation. The chemical release of an orgasm makes them feel balanced, better, or able to sleep. They found a medicine for their brain problem. Then wham! They become Pavlov’s porn dog and the medicine becomes the addiction.
3. Escape Porn Addicts
This type of porn addict was abandoned, abused, neglected, raped, sexually used, bullied, felt unworthy, unloved, and/or experienced other negative events like their parents’ divorce. These experiences create legitimate soul pain, [which may be compared to'] toothache. This emotional toothache [craves] medicine. This adolescent person finds the fantasy world of being wanted, desired, powerful, adopted, and loved by pornography.
The porn makes love to your soul. Your soul feels safe, secure, loved, and wanted. This escape through the portal of porn is desired. Who doesn’t want to feel wanted and have an orgasm at the same time?
You not only become Pavlov’s porn dog salivating but [also] sedated repeatedly [and] calm in your soul. Porn becomes your lover, friend, confidant, and your “safe place.” Again your soul “medicine” becomes an addiction.
4. Re-enactment Porn Addicts
This type of porn addict is trickier. You may have never told anyone that you were sexually abused or used as a sex object, [possibly] multiple times. This sexual trauma set up some serious issues in your life. However, [may] sex feel good, and you still chemically [desire] the perpetration.
Your porn themes will generally revolve around the same themes of your sexual abuse. If the perpetrator was older, you will want older porn. Your porn re-engagement is the way you avoid addressing and medicating the sexual abuse, and porn [becomes] part of your addiction.
5. Avoidance Porn Addicts
This type of porn addict has challenges in near relationships of the romantic or marriage type. They are closed off emotionally to their spouse or significant others.
They are too busy [in their addictive behaviors] for [their partner], and blame them for problems in the relationship. They can also withhold love, praise, sexuality, and even sex, or are disconnected during sex. They can also be controlling, angry, or silent in the relationship. They usually can’t accept they are wrong and their spouse or significant other feels like a roommate. If this sounds like you, you [may] struggle with intimacy [or even sexual] anorexia.
Here the porn addict is so attached to the other world of porn and fantasy that their intimacy with a real person who doesn’t worship [them] 24/7 is a challenge. The avoidance of the real and preference for the unreal is at the core of the avoidance porn addict.
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