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I think we are really cutting hairs by trying to define obsession and addiction. My wife would say they are synonymous and I still have a stupid hobby regardless of semantics.

I am a Latter-day Saint, or Mormon, and we talk about pornography addiction in our church a lot. One thing that they have published in the past is that members need to recognize there are occasional users, casual users, and everyday users. Everyday users would be those that fit the societal stereotypical definition of addicted. Occasional users would be viewing porn maybe once a month; and casual users might be once a week. I think this type of thinking would be similar to people who only smoke at bars. For some reason, when they are in that setting they choose to have a cigarette. But someone addicted to cigarettes will need one at a certain time each day. I knew a man who got down to one cigarette a day but couldn't stop because he needed it to go poop. If he didn't smoke on the toilet he got constipated.