Explain how pornography may increase sexual well-being but can be harmful for individuals and couples if its use gets out of control.
What will be an ideal response?
When individuals use adult pornography, hard or soft, to an extreme, such as nonstop, it becomes a problem and it leads to actual or virtual compulsions.
They should seek help from professionals. The extent to which it is a genuine problem in the general population is not known. If viewing pornography is one-sided and does not include consent between partners, it may cause problems with a real-life relationship.
Pornography can disrupt what people do in intimate, ongoing relationships because they may develop unrealistic expectations about what good sex is or about what makes an attractive body. They also may be using it to cope with some psychological issue that needs attention.
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