So help me understand: Do you believe it's harmless? or porn addiction isn't real because DSM hasn't created a category for it?
From my view, porn is terrible and there is very much an addictive element like anything else that short circuits the delivery of a pleasure response. Adolescent exposure to porn creates a mental map of how the "transaction" unfolds, which is incredibly unhealthy.
Some people really want porn to be a harmless, stress-reducing activity. Spoiler alert: it ain't that.
For most people maybe it is. Believe it or not, people are interested in sex and some advertisers use it to sell things other than movies. Art is often sexual and the human body can be beautiful. Look throughout this website and this thread - sexual pictures everywhere. Parents need to talk with children about sex and relationships.
My point is simply this - there is a lack of research on porn (especially when you subtract the agenda driven research from special interest groups.). Most people don't ever have a problem that view it. Most porn is harmless and despite popular myth depicts consensual actors/actresses who are enjoying what they are doing.
Most problems around "porn" in relationships are just a reflection of other problems in the relationship and most times the "woman" brings porn up as "the" problem to be fixed when in reality there are relationship/trust/communication problems that are ignored because focus becomes "addiction". And no people- most people who watch porn DO Not become interested in child or animal porn. Where do you get this misinformation. There are a number of good books on the subject if anyone truly cares.
Bottom line is that couples need to be open about sex with each other and figure out what is ok for them in their relationship! Too often topics like porn are never discussed and when it occurs the sky is falling. Parents ned to talk with children about sex and healthy relationships and discuss what is real and not real in the media they consume on sex/violence etc.
And remember we should all feel bad about masterbating