Addicted to Sexting Page #11

Why would you say that?

It's easy money.

I wouldn't say

I'm addicted to sexting.

Um, I think there's

a lot of people out there

who have worse addictions

than I do.

I'm not addicted to sexting.

I can go without sexting,

but I definitely couldn't

tweet without sexting.

So, I don't know.

I guess I might have to admit my addiction,

right here, now.

Addiction is

a bio-chemical issue.

It's the brain's need

for dopamine.

And so, we see it, for example,

with video game players

that they play to get a squirt

of dopamine in their head

to make them feel pleasure.

The Internet itself

is neural stimuli.

It can ensnare you

in a dopamine loop.

Whether you're on something

as simple as Pinterest,

which you pin and pin and react

and act and act,

and you're falling down

a rabbit hole

because it's stimulating

your mind.

An addiction is only

an addiction

if it's interfering with

other parts of your life.

When we talk about sexting

or any technology,

there's really no, uh, disorder

for technological addiction.

We suggest that people

take breaks from their devices.

Even turn them off for a while.

Definitely not have them on

in the middle of the night,

so that you're not getting alerts and

rings, you know, while you're sleeping.

And during the day,

try to minimize

the number of times that

you're checking your phone.

If it's not a problem,

don't treat it as a problem.

So if people are sexting and there's

no negativity about it in their lives

and they're happy about it,

it's something they don't

need to be focused on.

If sexting makes you

feel pleasure

and you're doing it because you constantly

need that replenishment of pleasure,

but you can only get it through sexting,

then it's problematic.

And so, if you're addicted to the

sexting part, that's not a good thing.

Because that means you're not carrying

it over into your sexual relationship,

and it's a tool

in and of itself.

For many people, particularly their

smart phone is an object of obsession.

We're noticing in our research,

more and more people are carrying their

phone in their hand all day long.

Not relegating it

to their pocket anymore,

but carrying it close at hand

so they can feel that buzz,

that vibration.

So they can get it immediately.

What we're really seeing,

as a race,

being totally consumed

by our ability to connect

to another person

through a little box

we carry 24/7, 365.

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