Are porn addicts sex addicts?

It's just a facet of sex addiction. Like being a drug addict, everyone has their drug of choice.

For many people they take the entry level drug, in this case porn, its easily available and semi-socially acceptable. A bit like weed, like many people on weed most of them you wouldn't notice in the street, very few are incapacitated by it.

Some people move on from entry level drugs, chasing bigger highs etc. these are the people that move on to Cocaine and Heroin, or in SA terms to Escorts and dominatrix etc.

Everyone's experience is different and everyone's reaction to that experience is different.

So yes a porn addict is a sex addict.

 

Maybe because P is just easier and usually costs less or nothing at all?

 

Not necessarily, many people do not progress beyond soft drugs.

Perhaps alcohol would have been a better analogy, it is a drug, many people can use recreationally and it not cause them any issues, some are functioning alcoholics, some are out and out alcoholics.

Porn could be any of these levels.

Comparatively I would consider myself to the functional level of porn use, more than casual but not enough to have negatively affected my health and lifestyle. I read many stories on here where porn users have progressed beyond the functional stage.

 

guy A is a porn addict and B a sex addict.

 

Well, I am not addicted to sex, i don’t have the craving to sleep with woman. I have the craving to watch porn and mastrubate, or the craving to visit cam sites and mastrubate with girls, but not a sex addiction! It is easy for me, not to have sex!

so for me my porn addiction, is not a sex addiction! Because what you do in porn, I would never do in real life!

 

Even in the case of porn and masturbation, sexual organs are involved. Masturbation by definition is solo sex. The same bodily functions are used as in the case of 'real' sex with a partner. Masturbation isn't any less real, just because you are having sex in your head doesn't mean you aren't using your (real) sexual organ. So I voted 'yes' as well.

 

I'd still say yes. Just because there's no 'real' vagina, doesn't mean it isn't replaced. The hand carries out the exact same function.

 

Sex addicts seek out real life partners to get their fix. Porn addicts don't.

 

Addiction as definition is generally reserved for cases when individual inflicts significant harm to himself and or others by doing the activity and can not stop it despite recognizing these significant negative effects.
Addiction is also reserved for describing someone who is actually unable to stop on his/her own and external intervention is needed.
Given this definition, much more care should be given to use of the word addiction. It defines a person gripped by self destructive behavior and not being able to stop, unless someone intervenes, he/she will suffer significant psychological or physical damage or death.

For this reason true "addicts" should seek external help, as they will never recover on their own, as definition suggests. And those who can recover on their own were never addicted, they were "abusing" and have not reached the point of becoming addicted.

Everyone just wants to call everything an addiction, forgetting the harsh reality of what that term means.

Given what I explained, how do you imagine sex addiction to unfold physically?

 

No, if I was addicted to sex I would no longer be a virgin.

 

I think this echoes with my alcohol analogy above. I think I've said here in other places as well that I don't consider that I was ever addicted to porn but I certainly did abuse it.

Sex Addiction as a title is like being a Drug Addict, it's too broad a title to really define someone's problems. In the same way that "Drugs" covers a wide range of vices, "Sex" in in broadest definition covers a wide range of vices, some solo but many by their very nature have to involve other people, and they could be willing participants or not (and I'm not talking about rape here but about people who unknowingly feed someone's addiction to particular acts.)

If you say someone is a Sex Addict it's not really telling you what their issues are.