Made a Test for Porn Addiction

> However, porn is unhealthy in any amount.

Uh, I disagree, like a lot.

Porn does a lot of nice things:

- it does some form of sex education when parents/school/society does none

- it lets people realize what sex is about (think about amateur categories and how you can see people not that different from you having sex and realizing that different shapes and sizes, all work)

- it lets you explore your own sexuality (could you have immagine you would have liked that kind of things?)

- it lets you explore sexuality with your own partner (people get bored of the same sex every time, you know?)

And so much more.

Of course as with many other things (alchool, for example) you should not get too much of it.. But I disagree completely with the statement that "porn is bad in any amount".

This should be talked about as much a drugs and alcohol. I once watched a great dev get terminated because he would repeatedly and instinctively pull up porn sites at work, like in the same manner you might get frustrated at an error message and pull up Hacker News as a distraction, this guys would do it with porn. So sad. He did it in front of me once, I was like 'Whoa bro, wtf is going on here, not cool.', he just muttered 'sorry' and something about muscle memory. I did not rat him out but apparently he had done it several times before, other employees noticed and had told HR. HR had started to review his web history, one day they asked me to stay late for an emergency meeting, they explained that it had happened again (probably the 3rd of 4th time) and someone made a written complaint so they had no choice but to terminate him for cause, I elected not to fight for him. He is a good developer, I hope he found some help. He was the kind of dev you don't need to micro-manage, his estimates were always fairly accurate and turned in code that met requirements. I had a side conversation with our IT manager after the termination and asked how much time they thought he was spending on those sites, apparently very little, he would bring up the home pages of his favorite sites then quickly realize what he was doing and close them, we are not talking about porn surfing sessions but they couldn't have a guy known as the 'porn dude' working for them.

Not exactly a balanced, unbiased look at this controversial issue, is it?

> So far, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has agreed that there is insufficient evidence to support diagnoses for sex and porn addiction. In 2010, the APA rejected the inclusion of “sex addiction” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). A new condition called “hypersexual disorder” was proposed for the DSM-5 but, in 2012, the APA rejected it as well for lack of evidence.

> when UCLA researchers studied the response to viewing sexually explicit images in people who self-defined as being unable to regulate their porn viewing, the results showed no similar response [to addiction].... The authors concluded that there was no evidence to say that even problem sexual regulation fit the definition of addiction as defined by brain response and that these people simply had high sex drives.

>people who develop addictions initially show high levels of response in the pleasure centers of the brain... one of the hallmarks of true addiction is that the pleasure received from the object of the addiction wanes over time as the person no longer wants the object but, rather, needs the object. In contrast, even people who report very strong “addiction” to sex continue to show activation of the pleasure centers of the brain when viewing sexually explicit images. This response is similar to the response people have to chocolate, ice cream and other highly desired pleasures.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/your-porn-addiction-isnt-real

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/close-and-personal/2...

You might consider backing off the unsupported blanket statements like "100% of people feel better after quitting to watch porn" and "porn is unhealthy in any amount". As it is the site smells more like zealotry than a fair test.

The very first question is "I felt that porn is an important part of my life", and the options are "never", "sometimes", "always", etc. Is it asking for how much of the time I have that feeling (meaning if I say anything but "always" or "never", I'm saying that my opinion changes with regularity), or is it asking how much of the time porn is an important part of my life (which doesn't make sense to me because either something is or is not an important part of the whole of one's life - it can't sometimes be an important piece of your entire life and other times not, unless you've had a gradual change of heart that you want to reflect in your answer). In other words, this immediately feels like a meaningless question.

Instead of the word porn, I substituted the word dog and "play with dog."

I might be addicted to my dog.

Should I seek help, or is my addiction socially approved so I'm all good?

I feel like the questions are essentially "are you addicted to porn?"

I really appreciate all the feedback @znpy @crosseye_jack @xwkd @ppseafield and everyone else.

We're going to be making changes and updates to the site and will try to make it better.

Kiss of death guys, 500 error. Going to try to fix ASAP!

Brand new site.

Site is broken... welp, back to surfing porn!

If anyone here is an expert and can help me fix this kiss of death 500 error please message!

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Site is back up!

I'm getting a 500 error when I click Take the Test.

The moment you need no know about outage really fast (ideal case for amixr.io)

If you ever wanted to know if you're reliant on Pornography, check this out.

Porn really affects us more than we realize.