| been drifting and dreaming while a monster has grown in our midst." In reviewing the literature on the effects of pornography, there is a variety of evidence suggesting risk and the possibility of harm. "In over 90% of my patients, regardless of what the original initiating causes were—pornography may act as a facilitator...to their sexual addiction and illness," says Doctor Victor B. Cline, a psychotherapist specializing in family/marital counseling and sexual addictions at the University of Berkley. According to him, once involved, the porn-consumers kept coming back for more and still more. The material seemed to provide a very powerful sexual desire followed by sexual release, most often through masturbation.
The use of pornography by its very nature isolates individuals—making them more intent on satisfying selfish needs. Once addicted, they could not throw off their dependence on the material by themselves despite many negative consequences such as divorce, and problems with the law. Being immersed in their fantasies, they tend to have an increasing sense that "everybody does it" and this gave them permission to also do it, even though the activity was possibly illegal and contrary to their previous moral beliefs. Afterwards, "they tend to act out sexually the behaviors viewed in the pornography, including compulsive promiscuity, exhibitionism, having sex with minor children, rape, |