Porn addiction is a massive epidemic in men that society is choosing to ignore.

Porn is being promoted as positive and a sort of ritual for men these days. Its deemed by most as a positive pastime and to critique it will be met with scorn and many will see you as against sex positivity for doing so. It is seen by many as a private hobby with no harm to most, except some complaining about misogyny towards women in porn.
However, as growing amounts of evidence show porn is having immensely negative effects on men. Many are becoming addicted to something encouraged and as safe by society. Men are having problems performing in bed with their partner, reduced libidos, fetishes they did not previously have which cause shame, seeing women as sex objects solely, having to watch more intense and degrading and even violent porn to get the same dopemine hit.
Many men are also attaining erectile dysfunction where they cannot attain an erection without porn or even with porn. Studies into when people first locate porn shows most boys begin watching at around the age of 9-10. The beginning of their sexuality is being distorted and twisted in their formative years when they are vulnerable to an addiction they have no idea about. There are also studies showing that porn consumption causes anxiety and depression in its users.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of men now coming forward, largely on the internet due to the stigmas of this addiction with their stories. How has this been received? Well as a joke. An ex porn addict went on tv and told a presenter telling him his addiction did not exist that his penis could no longer get hard. Academics researching this area have been mocked and ridiculed for their research.
This problem is only getting worse and if not addressed very soon will probably become one of the greatest concerns for our society on a social level. It will possibly reach an epidemic proportion as men in possibly their millions will be addicted to something very, very hard to quit and the assistance in fixing this issue will be very difficult and very expensive.
If you are a man who has a positive relationship with porn then thats fine, but this post is to show the unpopular opinion being ignored by society.
Check out No Fap and Porn Free if you want to see what men are having to silently endure at the moment.
Edit: realized I fucked up the title. My point was that if porn addiction is not addressed and started to be dealt with now I believe in mere decades we could have an epidemic on our hands. Also I swear to god I put this in the post but if you watch porn and are not an addict I am truly happy for you. I am also pro masturbation and sex positive. My point is for a sizeable number of people porn is addictive and this reality needs to be known and we need to help porn addicts. I hope this clarifies everything.
Also thanks so much to the people who commented talking about their struggles with addiction or their SO's struggles. Also thanks to those who gave me awards. This post hit the trending page so it shows just how many people are impacted by this. I really hope we get the help and support we need.

Porn is no different to mobile devices, is no different to fast food, is no different to prescription drug dependency, is no different to excessive exercise regimes, is no different to easy plastic products. etc.etc.

Create it, market it and sell it and people will buy it.

It's just an alternative reality.

As is being ultra-conservative.

How is being an ultra-consverative living in an alternative world, isn't that all political ideologies

Again, porn doesn't cause people to become addicted. It is the person itself. It is fairly easy to control yourself and limit it. It is a choice that is sinful and should not plague you. It wasn't hard for me to stop doing it. Addiction is caused by the person unable to control themselves. Masturbation is perfectly healthy from a science perspective, but with a lot of things, it can be abused and misused.

The industry itself is dirty, foul, and disgusting. 

ok 

People do different things.

No ones choice is actually right and no ones choice is actually wrong.

Just down to Earth alternative realities.

Which is all just basic ideology.

If you think about it logically.

The need for porn probably stems from an ultra-conservative attitude towards the act of procreation and it's associated body parts,

Which, if you continue to think logically, is rather ridiculous.  

Consverative culture supports trad views

nah

"nah" ?

nah mate i aint about that life mate aight

What's with the pseudo-cockney?

It's been a long time but it's unfortunate that some view critiquing porn as going against sex positivity, but it's crucial to recognize that addiction and negative effects can exist alongside healthy sexual experiences. The growing evidence of porn's negative impact on men's lives should not be dismissed or taken lightly.

You become more of a sexual deviant with porn. Even Ted Bundy admitted that it was a major factor that led to his killings

All my best masturbation sessions are from erotic stories, not images or videos.

So is there any hard evidence of harm from porn or just the claim that it is addictive? I know it's not addictive for me, or not addictive enough. My love of pasta and hard cheese is a far greater threat to me self-control than porn... it also has proven health detriments.

Well, you might be an exception. But it shows that porn is not actually the object of addiction, unless you watch it all day long without masturbating.

I've been checking the history of Ted Bundy and the dude was already mentally ill so I guess porn was a trigger to his insane behaviour rather than a factor to his insanity.