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Originally Posted by Eisenhower
See I think that's where you're confused. They're not playing a game of truth or dare at the office just to see if they can get away with it. They are being "compelled" because they're always thinking about sex or nude women. It's not because they want to think about it, rather it brings them to a place of temporary satisfaction-- self gratification.  Once satisfied, they'll log off the adult website and carry on with their life. It's "lust" in simple terms. They can't walk down the street without visually raping every attractive female they encounter. One's never enough.
Gambling is similar. Gamblers always assume that the next roll of the dice or pull of the handle will be the big payoff. It's replayed over and over in their mind and they believe it. But why do they do it? Certainly not because they can get away with it, otherwise they would have stopped long before they lost their house, wife and car. They're hooked- no chemicals needed. |
You are presenting a contradiction with the words that I have highlighted. If one is never enough then they cannot log off and continue their life. They will need to stay on, and continue looking, maintaining the satisfaction that they get from it. this will continue until there is something that prevents that. This is the pattern that all addicts exhibit. Be it alcohol, heroine, gambling, smoking, and so on. The high needs to me maintained. When their stimulus is removed from their system they enter with-drawl with their body and mind undergoing high levels of stress, beginning with irritability and anxiousness with extreme cases eventually rendering the person useless as a functioning human being (hard drugs) until they are recovered. I am still not convinced that this is what happens people who look at porn while at work. They have a problem yes, but not an addiction.
I'm not confused at all, they do it mostly because they believe nobody will ever know. Its more similar to people that go to internet forums at work (like this one), or play online games, or check their personal e-mail while at work, rather than gambling. It continues because of the false belief that past success is a trend towards future success and not merely good luck. This is opposite to the problem that compulsive gamblers have which you described, that their string of bad luck is going to change, they just need 1 more chance. This is what helps to identify gambling as an addiction. That and the fact that they will bet on anything, signifying that they cannot stop.