Both men and women can become addicted to pornography. The kind of porn that each prefers tends to differ, though. Where men tend to look at purely sexualized imagery (hardcore porn), women typically prefer erotica with at least a hint of an emotional connection (such as the book Fifty Shades of Grey). Either way, the core signs of pornography addiction are similar for both men and women, typically including some combination of the following:
- Escalating amounts of time spent on porn use, with hours and sometimes even days lost to pornography
- Viewing progressively more intense or bizarre sexual content
- Continued porn use despite negative consequences and/or promises made to self or others to stop using porn
- Lying about, keeping secrets about and covering up the nature and extent of porn use
- Anger or irritability if confronted about the nature or extent of porn use
- Escalation from two-dimensional porn viewing to use of technology for casual, anonymous or paid-for sexual encounters, whether in-person or via Webcams
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