How might pornography affect the capacity to relate?

How might pornography affect the capacity to relate?

I have previously reflected on the compulsive use of pornography and explored some of the origins of such a compulsion from an individual perspective. Here, I want to consider some relational aspects of the experience of compulsive use of pornography. We are relational beings and our sense of self develops through relations with others. The relationship with pornography can, and does, have implications for one’s capacity and desire to seek, buil…