Stay far away from it.
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True, but because replaces a biological imperative it is in someways more devious, harder to hit "rock bottom" or see the effect it might be having.
I'm sure it does have an effect; as your dopamine levels return to normal you may feel a little down or depressed.
But when you quit the other vices, you will be suffering from headaches, sweats, shivering or overheating, a very upset stomach, dizziness, etc. and when you fall off the wagon you will find that you don't have these effects on the substances so the path of least resistance is just to continue with the vice.
For porn, it's fairly easy to make the choice or fill your time with other hobbies or fill your time with social interaction that doesn't leave you enough time or energy to be alone long enough to do the deed to porn. For the other stuff, it's much harder. Bonus is that you will falsely remember how good it felt to do them which makes it hard to stay sober.
Okay, so for speaking as an individual who had been addicted to sex, I can tell you yes, there are withdrawals. You aren't satisfied by ignoring your desire, and it causes you to be irritated. It's psychological,(maybe that's actually conditioning, for which that's not withdrawls?), and if you aren't strong mentally, sex and masturbation are a helluva drug.
Regardless, I got hyper aggressive, and I would ignore taking care of myself if I knew I wasn't going to able to arrange a sex partner that night. Or if I got bored at work, I would masturbate in the bathroom. I can't imagine the psychology of porn addiction withdrawls, at least I had human interaction. Probably have to continually convince yourself you don't need it even though it's so readily and easily available.
Even though I had gotten over it mostly, you can imagine my reaction to my fiancee telling me he wanted to stop having sex, and wait again until we're married. That date in November still feeling pretty far ? but so far so good.
Odd, I've never felt I had to just because I hadn't watched it in a while. It was sometimes nice for taking stress off, the same as anything else.
Though, porn eventually starts to look the same at some point
Some people drink casually, others are alcoholics. Same thing