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"An increasing number of research studies over the last three decades suggest that a wide range of substance and process addictions may serve similar functions. The current article considers 11 such potential addictions (tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs, eating, gambling, Internet, love, sex...

You do not have an addictive personality for the same reason that you do not have a pet leprechaun. You cannot have what does not exist: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-excess/201605/the-myth-the-addictive-personality

Over fifty years ago the discovery that rats would work to electrically stimulate their brains suggested the intriguing possibility that bliss could be achieved through the use of ?pleasure electrodes? implanted deep within the brain. Subsequent research has failed to bring about this brave new...

I read over and over how it's all about PMO. What if ones consumption was all P, but no MO? Thats how it was for me for years. All the stimulation was internal, with no "need" to masturbate in response to it.

I'm a biologist. I've seen some questions about possible effects of not masturbating, particularly fear of a buildup of excess semen (often called "sperm", although the sperm, strictly speaking, is just part of semen). Don't worry. You won't get backed up, have buildup, or otherwise develop any...

Suppose that a man has managed to do something that greatly pleases his wife. She spontaneously, after finding out about it, takes a risky photo in her workplace restroom and sends it to him. He didn't ask for it. He sees it and is greatly turned on by his wife's photo. Has he backslid?

I am 50 years old. I am on the autism spectrum. I am on my fourth marriage. I have been a consumer of pornography almost as long as there has been free internet distribution--yes, all the way back to encoded GIFs on USEnet news. I indulged in pornographic messaging--writing and reading fantasies...