The Passions

Why am I really addicted to porn?

Drawing on 11 years of priesthood, he says lust addiction is not really about sexuality — it is about emotional regulation. Most men were exposed young, and the habit becomes a way of coping with stress, anxiety, and uncertainty through a dopamine-driven fantasy of being desired. He describes the aftermath as a kind of humiliation ritual: the fantasy collapses into intensified feelings of being a loser, which then feed the next escape.