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Internet addiction and pornography
Young (1999), a founding member of  The Centre for On-Line Addiction claims Internet addiction is a broad term that covers a wide variety of behaviors and impulse control problems. She claims this is categorized by five specific subtypes including:
 * 1) Cybersexual addiction: compulsive use of adult websites for cybersex and cyberporn.
 * 2) Cyber-relationship addiction: Over-involvement in online relationships.
 * 3) Net compulsions: Obsessive online gambling, shopping or day-trading.
 * 4) Information overload: Compulsive web surfing or database searches.
 * 5) Computer addiction: Obsessive computer game playing.

Hypersexuality has become an enduring focus of empirical consideration in recent years (Kafka, 2010) The study of compulsive Internet pornography use as a subdomain of hypersexuality has also become a prevalent empirical focus in recent years. Internet pornography use is increasingly common in Western cultures (Carroll et al. 2008). In tandem with this increase, the mental health community has witnessed a dramatic rise in problematic Internet pornography use (Manning, 2006; Warden et al. 2004; Owens, Behun, Manning, & Reid, 2012).

Joshua B. Grubbs, a specialist in Addictive Behavior Patterns, outlines in the journal: Internet Pornography Use: Perceived Addiction, that present there is no widely accepted means of defining or assessing problematic Internet pornography use and the notion of Internet pornography addiction is still highly controversial.

The current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) does not recognise Internet pornography as an addiction. Dr. Donald L. Hilton Jr, MD discusses that the proposed DSM-5, currently set to be published in May 2014, contains in this new addition the diagnosis of Hypersexual Disorder, which includes problematic, compulsive pornography use.

This can be party attributed to the substantiated claim of Bostwick and Bucci (Bostwic & Bucci 2008) when treating Internet pornography addiction with naltrexone. They found that cellular adaptations in the (pornography) addict’s PFC resultd in increased salience of drug-associated stimuli, decreased salience of non-drug stimuli, and decreased interest in pursuing goal-directed activities central to survival.

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