Viewing Internet porn and/or engaging in cybersex chat, coupled with masturbation, cause the brain and body to release drugs back into its own nervous system. Based on its ability to produce self-medication, mask pain, escape reality and provide the means to achieve orgasm. Internet pornography has been placed in direct competition with illicit drugs!Internet pornography is considered preferable to traditional drugs in many ways. It can more easily be hidden from view. Achieving a high through Internet porn or cybersex won’t cause you to stagger around, slur your words or pass out. What other drug can you sample for free as long as you like? (There are enough “free” and “sampler” porn sites and thousands of cybersex chat rooms available through standard Internet services to keep an addict occupied for years.) And if the free or sample drugs aren’t strong enough, what other drug could you purchase in large enough quantities, not to mention a constantly changing variety, to satisfy your changing mood, craving or preference, all for just the cost of your Internet connection?
It’s easy to see why addicts of Internet porn eventually will outnumber cocaine, crack or meth addicts! Consider how the Internet porn/cybersex “drug” eclipses and outperforms common street drugs:
• The drug is free or relatively cheap.
• It can be used as often as desired.
• Regular users of the drug don’t manifest embarrassing outward physical signs.
• The drug, with rare exceptions (i.e. child pornography), is completely legal.
• No prescription is required.
• The drug producers (Internet pornographers) are shrouded in anonymity.
• Producers are able to pump the drug right into a home or office.
• The drug supply is endless and instantly available at the push of a button, 24 hours/day.
• Unlike other drugs, porn leaves behind no trace of physical evidence (no smell, no residue, no paraphernalia). Any physical hint of its use vanishes when the computer is turned off.
• The addict has access to a constantly changing variety of drugs. With thousands of choices, he/she can switch to a new, different or harder drug with the click of a mouse. (excerpted from The Drug of the New Millennium, Mark B. Kastleman, p.9)