Mbg and challenged -> I have no interest to act as an arbitator in your dispute, although this is a think I do a lot at work.
But.
I guess this really is individual thing.
I will not make much to hide that I lean more towards Mbg's position. This my view and here is why I think so:
1. this is all not sex addiction, not porn addiction, but DOPAMINE addiction (I would maybe add sexually themed dopamine addiction); and this is not a semantic thing: all of us, we're addicted to DOPAMINE, really, the only difference is what you hit to get the dopamine spike;
2. the differentiation doesn't speak to me: P involves M usually and all that together is sex life, which makes perfect sense to call it "sex addiction";
3. I am sorry to say that, challenged, but I
personally find your attitude a dangerous one; if your P addiction is isolated, then my congrats to you, but my own experience, and the experience of the prevailing group here is that PMO addiction is a tip of the iceberg, where people really do not know what healthy sexually is and they have to build that from scratch -> this applies particularly to those who started PMO very early and that group is massive;
4. also, on the pure symptoms perspective, many guys start with PMO and their behaviour starts to spin around, including oggling, fantasizing, dating sites, prostitutes' sites, and then spin further to involve actually meeting those people, going to those prostitutes and so on; I don't say all addicts do that, but I think all are in danger;
5. that said, I acknowledge that their is a group here who had a healthy (?) sex life, which was subsequently ruined by P only; those are usually a bit older guys who were saved by the fact that technology wasn't that advanced in their youth.
I just hope that we all help ourselves.
This place is made for fruitful discussion, and assistance, and consolation.
So let's not bicker over semantics too much
Best to all!!!
J.