Well, it was kind of inevitable, wasnât it? A gamechanger as huge as AI porn was always going to cause the odd moral panic or two, and ‘AI porn addiction’ appears to be the latest one thatâs brewing. David Kavanagh, who is a psychotherapist based in Ireland, has claimed that a growing number of his clients are seeking help for an addiction to generating AI erotica. Apparently, it all starts when masturbating to videos gets a bit stale, and so the viewer seeks out OnlyFans models to satisfy more specific cravings. However, eventually even an e-thot can’t provide exactly what the average gooner wants, and so they finally seek fap heaven in the use of an AI porn generator.
Many of us, myself and hopefully you included, would prefer to see our new high-tech hobby as a form of porn liberation. No longer are we limited to what a porn director or studio thinks we want, or what will make him and them the most money. Nor are we restricted even by an OnlyFans model’s ability or willingness to cater for her simps. Suddenly, the porn viewer has become the director and creator of his own erotic fantasies. It’s no wonder that millions of happy gooners are increasingly in AI porn heaven, and equally unsurprising that psychotherapists now exploit public fears by branding this as something awful like a heroin addiction.
The idea that a generation was getting addicted to porn in the same way as junkies get addicted to hard drugs, with allegedly similar effects on the brain, originated largely with Gary Wilson. The now deceased author was the man behind the infamous book “Your Brain On Porn”, as well as a website of the same name. He is widely regarded as kickstarting the “NoFap” movement, or cult – as some would prefer to call it.
The ‘science’ behind âporn addictionâ has been debunked many times over the years, most eloquently perhaps by David J.Ley, a clinical psychologist and author who argues that the so-called problems experienced by ‘porn addicts’ are better explained by guilt and shame that are often linked to their religious beliefs and upbringing. It’s worth noting that, until quite recently, Ireland was probably the most religious nation in the Western World.
We should all strive to lead balanced lives, but spending a lot of time having fun with an AI-porn generator is no different in itself to spending your time on any other hobby that you enjoy. In any case, ‘porn addiction’, let alone ‘AI porn addiction’, is not a recognized diagnostic criterion, as even the Journal grudgingly admitted:
Currently, there is no officially recognised diagnostic criteria for âporn addictionâ. Attempts to include âhypersexuality disorderâ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) were unsuccessful due to a lack of consistent evidence.
So don’t feel shame or guilt in having fun with your AI porn generator, so long of course if you are using it ethically and lawfully. Used responsibly, AI porn harms nobody, and that includes yourself. Remember that these same quacks and sexual puritans were only yesterday telling us that pornstars were inherently exploited, and often trafficked. Now we have tools that mean there never has to be a human pornstar ever again. But instead of celebrating the end of ‘exploitation’, these quacks and grifters, addicted to restricting peopleâs liberties, simply create new victims and labels to achieve their mission.
