Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Corresponding author: Shane W. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited. Using an Internet-based data-collection procedure, we recruited 1, male pornography users to complete questionnaires assessing demographic and sexual behaviors, hypersexuality, pornography-use characteristics, and current interest in seeking treatment for use of pornography.
Treatment-interested men were 9. Pornography refers to written material or pictorial content of a sexually explicit nature that is intended to elicit sexual arousal in the reader or viewer.
Those seeking treatment for hypersexuality are more likely to meet the criteria for psychiatric comorbid disorders e. Currently, there is little consensus regarding the definition and symptom presentation of hypersexuality Kingston, HD and SUDs also include criteria used to assess social impairment linked to drug use or sexual behavior, respectively. However, SUD criteria assess physiological dependence i. Despite a successful field trial supporting the reliability and validity of criteria for HD Reid et al.
A recent review of the literature found clinical and neurobiological similarities between HD and SUDs; however, currently insufficient data are available, thus complicating classification, prevention and treatment efforts for researchers and clinicians Kraus et al. Gola, Lewczuk, and Skorko found that negative symptoms e. For example, it is not known which features e. Are there specific features that might help to identify individuals who need and desire treatment for problematic use of pornography?
Other factors such as religiosity and moral disapproval may also complicate the diagnosis and treatment of problematic use of pornography. Using data from 1, male pornography users, this study sought to identify factors e. First, we examined what percentage of men would report a current interest in seeking treatment for use of pornography. We expected the rate to be relatively low because we recruited participants from a non-treatment seeking sample of men.
