Is porn addiction real? Is "Death Grip" real? I see a lot of people talking about these like they're real thing but I'd always thought they were made up by Catholics and Mormons to shame people out of masturbating. And then "NoFap" formed out of the miasma of religious trauma and poor sexual health education and things just kind of mutated and spread. Any thoughts? Preferably with studies by atheists to back them up?
Pornography is subject to the same hedonic treadmill as anything else, and it's certainly possible to become addicted to it, to become desensitized with overuse, etc.
There's probably something to be said for physical desensitization from repeated, aggressive, uh, cranking, but it's probably only in relatively extreme cases.
There are, of course, many other issues with pornography beyond negative effects on the user.
I will admit I've had an issue with desensitization, but I just took a break and everything returned to normal. It applies to most everything physical or mental. You get diminishing returns and need a break for your body and mind. You can definately get hurt if your let yourself on a hedemonic tread, what ever it is