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Porn addiction is a problem shared by many men and women today.
This problem deals on someone who has looked at porn excessively and inordinate amounts that sometimes results in lost jobs, failed marriages, and destroyed families.
Whether the motive for consuming pornography is sexual appetite, escape/self-medication, or any other reason, engaging in these addictions causes the brain and body to endogenously produce and release chemical drugs into its own system. These chemicals include: epinephrine (an adrenal gland hormone that "locks-in" memories of experiences occurring at times of high arousal), adrenaline, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), noradrenaline, norepinephrine and testosterone, among others. This drug is dragging millions of troubled victims along in its destructive wake.
Persistent accessing of porn not only provides the addict with sexual arousal, but offers a way to self-medicate in order to escape the realities of life. A porn addict will suffer withdrawal symptoms when they try-or are compelled-to relinquish their vice for any length of time. The withdrawal symptoms may drive an addict to find porn and often causes him to act out his needs in inappropriate ways.
But no need to worry a veteran family counsellor has offered crying as solution to this dilemma.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says guys and gals who watch porn need to cry a little more.
Shmuley says porn addicts are also addicted to sex and sports which makes them numb from the pressures of life.
He said the best way to resolve porn addiction is to teach men and women how to cry since crying makes them realized that they are still human beings who have emotions.
 "No one cares about a man’s heart, and he becomes depressed, so they use sex to dull the pain. Men don’t want to feel or show emotion unless it’s through sports. Men need to learn to not be afraid to cry, that’s what it’s about,"Shmuley said.

An expert said porn addiction can be resolve through crying.