"Such a world, of course, does not exist. But the addict to pornography desires to be blinded, to live in a dream. Any element which questions the illusion that sexuality is all encompassing, the very basis of human activity, must be denied. The addict can become enraged by any evidence, such as an inadvertant microphone, that the people on the screen are actors or less than perfectly tuned sexual beings. On a wider scale, those in the thrall of pornography try to eliminate from their consciousness the world outside pornography, and this includes everything from their family and friends to their business deals or last Sunday's sermon to the the political situation in the Middle East. In engaging in such elimination the viewer or reader reduces himself. He becomes stupid. "

Mura,D. – A Male Grief: Notes on Pornography and Addiction, Note 7, 1987