This article is quite long, but still very good and shocking. After reading everything, I honestly don’t know how this is still authorized to function.
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Pornography addiction is not real. I agree minors probably shouldn’t be viewing it, but dealing with that is an issue in itself that isn’t resolvable by this form of ‘therapy’.
This is disgusting, and the amount of psychological damage being incurred to these minors is nauseating to think about.
…I need a drink.
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Probably worse than the harm caused by seeing porn. I’ll hazard a guess, most teens have see some porn and they seem to survive.
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I disagree strongly that porn addiction is not real. It most certainly is, and can cause a lot of problems for the addict and their family.
However, I share your disgust that programmes like this can still exist; they are nothing more than official child abuse camps, and how they are still legal beggars belief.
(I also can’t help wondering if Cameron’s parents sent him there not because of the porn but because he was gay. Not that that makes it any better.)
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I think it’s a difficult to make a blanket statement about it being real/not real. On one hand, almost all of the “porn addiction” rhetoric out there is puritan bullshit or a blatant scam. On the other, I do know a few people who experience issues with pornography that closely mirror more widely understood types of additions. It’s confusing because, unlike most addictions, porn itself is not inherently addictive, and most people who watch it never experience any issues because of it. But in the few cases where they do, it can be really problematic.
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Porn addiction is about as “real” as addiction to dihydrogen monoxide.
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Nasty stuff, that dihydrogen monoxide. Causes all sorts of problems. I plan to circulate a petition to ban it. 
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It depends on how addiction is defined. Certainly, it is not a medical addiction, but there can be some psychological dependence on it. Terms need to be specific if these conversations are to be useful.
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I think I read somewhere that the term “problematic use” would also be better than “addiction” when it comes to pornography.
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I read most of this article and the sheer volume of human rights violations involved is absolutely sickening. How can hell holes like this be allowed to operate in America? In many ways it sounds worse than maximum security state prisons. All for the “crime” of masturbation or porn? Everyone running that shit show needs to face criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits. From the counselors to the Utah State agency inspecting it.
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The only way for its use to be “problematic” is if you don’t cum hard enough from it. In that case, you might need medical assistance for that ED or whatever the female equivalent of ED is.
Men …
Random sexism, what?
Low opinion of my sex.
Even assuming that addiction to pornography is real, pretending that it is as harmful as addiction to drugs, cigarettes or alcohol is ridiculous. But I’m not surprised by the prudes, always wanting to be morally superior to others.