Pornography Addiction in Adolescent Boys: A Case Report

DOI

10.2991/978-94-6463-310-8_12How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Compulsive Pornography; Teen; Internet

Abstract

Background

Pornography addiction is the act of repeatedly seeing something that stimulates sexual desire and losing self-control to stop it. Today, with the rapid development of internet technology, teenagers find it easy to access pornographic sites and watch content that leads to pornography addiction. Behavioural addiction to pornography has been linked to anxiety problems, mood disorders, and stress.

Case Report: We identified a case of pornography addiction in a 17-year-old boy. In the last 1.5 years, the patient often watched pornographic videos, which resulted in the patient spending most of his time alone in his room. He also rarely sleeps, is not enthusiastic, does not socialize with family and friends, is irritable, lazy at school, and has poor concentration and academic performance. The patient cannot break the habit, and when he does not watch graphic porn, he feels anxious and keeps thinking about it. According to the patient, this is disturbing, but the patient cannot stop it.

Pornography addiction is the repetitive viewing of things that stimulate sexual desire and loss of self-control, which may be clinically significant distress or impairment in social work or other important areas of functioning. We concluded that watching porn videos predisposes patients to develop pornographic addictive behaviours. Therapy is effective and aggressively promises to reduce the problem.

Discussion

This diagnosis is confirmed in the interview. In the last 1.5 years, the patient often watched pornographic videos. Initially, patients only watch pornography videos for 1 hour per day. Over time, the viewing duration becomes 4-6 hours during the day and also at midnight between 3–6 a.m. or when the patient is alone in the bathroom. Patients often masturbate while watching pornographic videos. The patient finds it difficult to stop his habit; he begins to feel anxious because he keeps thinking about watching pornographic videos when he is not watching pornographic videos, which causes disturbances in sleep, concentration, and academic performance. The patient finds it difficult to stop his habits, causing problems with anxiety, mood disorders and stress. The patient was then treated with cognitive behavioural therapy.

Copyright

© 2023 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Fannia Rizki Amalia
AU  - Nazli Mahdina Sari Nasution
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/18
TI  - Pornography Addiction in Adolescent Boys: A Case Report
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychiatry Universitas Sumatera Utara (ICONAP 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 88
EP  - 91
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-310-8_12
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-310-8_12
ID  - Amalia2023
ER  -