Which one is worst: Porn Addiction or Sex Addiction ? Why ?

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There are more facets to sex addiction that someone without psychological literacy would be ill equipped to deal with. There's a whole 12 Step group called Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. It's not just the name, they recognize there's a relational part that has to do with codependency and the like.

At a certain point it has to do with psychology more than just "how hard is it to quit X", and there's no way to actually explain why if there isn't enough psychological literacy, it's almost like trying to communicate to someone in a different language. It's sort of like asking "is it harder to quit internet addiction on a phone or a computer" - there may be some aspects that make it relevant at that level like the portability and convenience, but it's about the internet and not the device to access it.

Do you have reason to believe you'd have easy access to porn? If you don't isn't that like asking how addictive a drug is when it's really hard to come by?

 

It's not just a defense, actually when people talk about psychological defense mechanisms it tends to be something people are not aware of. A psychologically savvy/literate perspective is really a big picture perspective. You may not be able to talk to many of your family members and local community about it, but there are people out there. In general the West seems to be more developed in terms of psychological knowledge just because people are more individualistic, so this is not a statement about one being better in all regards but just this one. There's also no guarantee that people in the West with a little bit of psychological knowledge is honest about themselves, it is possible they only think it's other people who have problems when it's kind of obvious they do too. But as a formal discipline you would be able to learn more here, which may involve programs you can access online.

 

It's a trick question in my opinion, both are pretty bad but with sex addiction you could hurt the feelings of other people as well and not just yours and in the end you will feel miserable just the same, so if we talking about "the lesser of two evils" principle I would go with porn addiction, which would be also the harder to quit because you can have access to porn 24/7 though

 

The one major difference is that you can't contract an STD (some deadly) through porn

 

porn addiction is worse because of how easily accessible it is
constantly having access to something addictive is a bad combination

 

This is one lazy answer honestly there are tons of studies out there on porn addiction and sexual addiction and many written for the lay man, if you have already perused them can you not explain it in a simple way? and they do not require any psychological literacy either -or if they do it is neatly explained like this- to comprehend.
Beside OP asked about personal experience of supposedly people who have somewhat managed their addiction.

 

I might have to say sex addiction only because of the kid part. If someone has lots of sex that person ends up with lots of kids from different women all those kids grow up without a father since the sex addict just wants sex not a family.

Porn addiction could probably be seen as worse I feel if you think about it on a deeper scale. For example, every porn video the addict watches is probably giving fuel to a corrupt industry