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In addition, conflicting emotional experiences as well as identity problems significantly increase vulnerability to addictive sexual behavior and pornography consumption. In this context, pornography creates unnatural and unreal culture of “sexualization” and body “dissatisfaction,” which is likely related to increasing numbers of the plastic surgeries among young females focused on breast and labiaplasty surgery, which are expected to create physical ideals of young women (Crouch et al., 2011; Mattebo et al., 2013), and a similar trend was observed also in men (Marra et al., 2020). This pornography-related body perfectionism may be linked to narcissistic tendencies, and some studies indicate that sex addiction is positively related to narcissism (Andreassen et al., 2018; Kafka, 2010; Kasper et al., 2015; Raymond et al., 2003; Widman and McNulty, 2010). In addition, various data indicate that manifestations of the “sexual addiction” related to excessive sexual behavior due to craving may cause inability of self-control and also subjective experiences of internal conflict, very similar to symptoms that usually manifest in obsessive-compulsive disorders (Goodman, 2001, 2008; Mauer-Vakil and Bahji, 2020).

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This atypical processing of sexually arousing stimuli also negatively affects neural networks of the mesolimbic reward center, which is usually involved in mechanisms of addiction (Roxo et al., 2011). Several neuroimaging data also suggest that repeated viewing of sexually arousing images (related to pornography exposure) has in its certain features similar arousal effects in the medial preoptic area as viewing of a real sexual partner (Hilton and Watts, 2011; Voon et al., 2014). The typical difference between “relational” sexual experiences and “unrelational” pornography stimuli is in addition repeated and frequent novelty of these pornography stimuli. The preference for a novelty of sexual partners has also been well documented in animal and human studies and described as the “Coolidge effect” (Fiorino et al., 1997; Wilson, 1997).

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