I must add that not everyone will escalate into more perverse forms of porn. We are not going to address other behaviors outside of porn usage right now, but in another article. When you slide down this scale to more perverse porn, your behaviors will change as you become willing to take more risks to feed your addiction. I developed this scale to demonstrate where porn addiction starts and how it progresses into using more perverted forms of pornography. This is where the start and progression of porn usage scale come in. You can use mild pornography for a while until you get bored with it and then you will seek out something different.
In another entry we will explore this research, but for now let’s stick with this. There is a chemical reaction in your brain similar to what happens when using drugs which gives you a high. When you are first exposed to mild forms or porn you get a high from it. In the world of pornography it works the same way. You build up a tolerance to the drug to the point where you need just a bit more to get high each time. When you use regularly, you need a larger or stronger dose of it to experience the same high you did a while ago. What used to excite you at one time has is less stimulating now. If you use pornography regularly you will notice something happen. The Progression of Porn Use – from mild to embarrassingly wild to illegal