Addiction—The first stage is addiction: Using pornography as a sexual stimulant, followed by sexual release, most often through masturbation. It begins controlling your life.
Desensitization—This is beginning of the tolerance stage, where what was first perceived as gross, shocking, disturbing and wrong begins to appear acceptable.
Escalation—Over time, addicts require more explicit and deviant material to meet their sexual “needs.”
Acting Out Sexually—A person begins to act out the behaviors they’re viewing. [There are different levels of acting out. For example: peeping Tom, stealing, compiling a collection, sexual predator, molestation, rape, etc.]