It will have to be dealt with sooner or later. How you'd control it, I don't know. It's for better minds than mind to figure that one out. But that used to be said about other forms of porn, too.
The gambling online, too, although it's addictive in the other forms, too. I think the gambling online is regulated somewhat, but I'm not sure how, I read where some people were arrested and sites shut down for gambling.
I'm not sure which comes first: the porn which escalates to other things, or the person with issues who locks into the porn as an easy outlet which escalates.
The guy I know of: Educated, IT man working for big employer, married to religious woman with two children one of whom is autistic. They had a nice house, two nice cars, a nice little family. Or so the wife thought. He starts in on the porn. It escalates to a level you wouldn't believe. Tens of thousands of dollars in debt, which he goes to extremes to hide from the wife. He starts stealing equipment from his employer to pay for more porn. The garage has hidden in it all sorts of printed out porn pics from the internet, and other porn. The feds raid...mixed in with the porn is child porn. I'm told it's unavoidable to get into internet porn heavily w/o downloading some child porn. His computer is confiscated, etc. He gets probation. But the porn thing continues. The wife needs help with teh autistic child and wants to "stand by her man." He is fired from his job but eventually gets another job at.....a school district. After being arrested with child porn. That's because it wasn't on his record. It's just porn. He steals cash from new employer. The problem escalates to an unimaginable point, as he ultimately gets the family into debt of a couple of hundred thousand dollars. The garage gets filled up again. Wife doesn't know what to do (she doesn't know about the stealing). After losing his job, he started a business and rented an office somewhere. It turned out to be a front for his porn addiction. It held his stolen goods and tons of his porn, when it was raided.
I would've kicked the guy out ages ago, but she didn't. So she ends up with a hubby convicted of felony theft, a ruined career, facing decades in prison, a garage full of porn, missing a car (he sold one of the cars to get cash), hundreds of thousands of debt (he'd second mortgaged the house). You get the picture.
Two men at my office: One was asked to leave, partly because he kept porn on his pc all day. His computer faced his office door, which faced the hall. When anyone passed his office, they could see pics of naked women staring at them in the hallway. He couldn't stop. All day long, he'd sit in front of his pc staring at porn. Another attorney, too. On his pc all the time. It got to where he stopped trying to hide it from his secretary when she came in. Consider that it was costing these attorneys a lot of money, both in accessing it, and the loss of business from clients. I can only guess that they just couldn't stop. It was so handy, right there in front of them, on their pc, which they have to use all day, anyway.
I guess it's like trying to stop smoking while holding a pack of cigarettes all day. The internet porn is a special problem. It involves not just the viewer.
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