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Porn addiction is a very real thing that people suffer from.
It has been continuously been reviewed and rejected by the APA due to lack of scientific evidence supporting it's existence.
There are people out there with compulsive disorders that can be associated with any activity, including consuming pornography. I will not deny that there are people suffering from such conditions that should be helped. There is no evidence that pornography is itself addictive.
This case is just an old man yelling at a cloud. It's just like the satanic panic of the 1980's. It's just like the false (and somewhat racist) claims against MSG. It's propaganda masquerading as science. It's morality masquerading as medicine.
By that logic, alcohol addiction isn't a thing
Except that there is plenty of evidence that alcohol is physically addictive and causes withdrawal symptoms. So, by my logic, alcohol addiction is a thing.
Because it's not just my logic. I'm leaning on the history of years and years of medical professionals and scientists doing research. And their conclusions are that alcohol addiction is a thing porn addiction is not.