Impact of Addiction – Gospel Knols

How Do People Become Addicted?

Many people become addicted out of curiosity. Some became addicts because of a justifiable need or as an act of deliberate rebellion. While others find themselves in their miserable state of being because of parents and family who violated them when very young.

For example, have you ever made a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight or to get in better shape? And if so, how many times have you broken the resolution before the 1^st quarter expired? Before January expired? Before the day was over?

Why? Is it because you are lazy? Is it because you are a liar?

The Impact of Addiction

Research indicates that 100% of males have viewed pornography by their senior year in high school. The average age of exposure is 11.

From a Darwinian perspective, those who practice unrestrained sexuality are selecting themselves and their DNA for extinction. The psychiatrist Norman Doidge in his book, The Brain That Changes Itself says:

“The men (and they are overwhelmingly men) who become hooked on this bilge are often miserable about it. They know that it affects their capacity to love and be loved by real women. Pornographers promise healthy pleasure and a release from sexual tension, but what they often deliver is an addiction, tolerance, and an eventual decrease in pleasure.”