Addicted to the Internet?
Sure, you’re not addicted to the internet. You just enjoy surfing the web and checking web sites, don’t you.
Check how many of these internet addiction symptoms you have if you dare!
- You simply must log onto the internet first in the morning, even before you’ve brushed your teeth.
- You eat your meals or regularly snack whilst surfing the web.
- You check your emails every minute or two and start getting nervous if there are no emails to download because it’s so soon since you last checked them.
- You’ve got one or more instant messenger chat windows open at any given time.
- Hours pass whilst your surf the web yet it seems like minutes.
- Your social life takes second place to your mouse and keyboard.
- Sneaking onto the internet when others aren’t looking.
- Chatting online and surfing the web whilst you’re supposed to be doing work.
- You’re computer desk is surrounded by “stuff” because you haven’t had the time to clear things up - you’ve been too busy checking out the next “must see” website.
- You’ve never met your circle of friends in person - they’re all (or almost all) people you’ve met on the web.
- You check your Facebook page every few minutes, just in case you’ve got a new friend or someone’s poked you.
- Your first thought when you take a movie on your cell phone is “this would make a great YouTube video”.
- You fall asleep at the keyboard and get woken by the bleep of your instant messenger.
- Your first instinct when you meet someone face to face is to type them a message.
- The internet is your only form of “escape”.
The more of these symptoms of internet addiction that ring true for you, the more likely it is that you’re becoming addicted to the internet. Get help while you can!
Find out how to easily deal with your internet addiction and regain your life again. Check out how to overcome your addiction to the internet.
How do you know if you are addicted to internet porn?
does anybody know how to stop? should you stop? is life better without internet porn?
1. Is internet porn is adversely affecting your relationship, quality time spent with your spouse or family.
2. Is internet porn adversely affecting your job.
3. Has internet porn replaced healthy exercise, hobbies, volunteer activities and helping those less fortunate in life.
4. Has your need for internet porn changed your views on morality so sex acts previously considered vulgar \ taboo are now raging desires.
5. As your appetite for porn has grown does it take more graphic no holds bared depictions of sexual activities to produce the same state of arousal that tamer fare once provoked.
6. Has your straight heterosexual nature been changed to a bi-curious state by exposure to porn.
7. Do you need to see images of people engaging in degrading painful or other abnormal sexual behavior to achieve arousal.
8. Has watching porn caused you to seek fulfillment of alternative sexual pleasures outside of your marriage or other committed relationship.
9. Have you had anonymous sex for no other reason than the fact that you needed to seek sexual release after watching porn.
10. Has watching porn introduced you to poppers, dildos, bem wah balls, leather, harnesses or any other type of sexual pleasure enhancing drugs or devices.
If you answer yes to more than three of these questions I would suspect you have a porn addiction. If internet porn is a form of sexual release that does not mutate and grow taking over more and more of your life then its not an addiction. The ket facet of addictions are that they grow. An addiction can grow slowly or quickly but the common theme of addiction is that it creates a need loop in an individual that requires an ever greater amount of a certain type of stimulation to be only temporarily fulfilled.
A love of porn that does not motivate a person to seek every greater intensity of depicted imagary, does not cause a person to seek every greater physical stimulation and finally does not intice a person to sneak out to new drugs, prostitutes, paramours and sex enhancing devices to find pleasure is not likely porn addiction.
Simply stated if porn is destroying your life because it is a growing part of your life then it is an addiction. All growing addictions fool the addict into thinking they can successfully manage the growth. Only when it is often too late does the porn addict realize they are not managing the porn addiction. In time porn addiction changes people so much that in time all life becomes mere flesh to be experienced, altered and exploited like a drug. This is rock bottom for porn addicts when life love and respect is gone and all humanity becomes just MEAT to be sampled and discarded like an old newspaper.
