Going further than incest porn? That’s easy. A therapist who specializes in sexual issues and I were talking about pornography. He talked about how pornography is a serious addiction that has, until recently, received no acknowledgement by the mainstream. He also talked about tolerance in porn consumption. A viewer starts out with vanilla porn and then works his way up to stronger, more taboo stuff.

In the beginning, he could watch an 8 minute video of an attractive woman having sex with a man, ejaculate, and carry on with the rest of his day. As his habit progresses, he watches gangbangs, BDSM, scat porn, and other more taboo/extreme pornography. Because of the very widespread nature of incest porn and the very real Oedipal complex, I do not believe incest porn should be counted among gangbangs and the like. This man selects more taboo porn because he is not getting stimulated enough by the normal pornography and it takes too long. Eventually, the man will exhaust all straight avenues of pornography and turn to gay porn. This man who would never have considered sex with another man and is in no way attracted to men is now watching gay porn. That’s because it’s more taboo, thus providing more thrill and stimulation. It goes beyond gay porn and leads to bestiality, and after that, it’s child pornography. This person was never attracted to children, and if you asked him in a normal state, he would completely disavow and abhor the sexual exploitation of children. Child pornography for the most serious porn addict is the ultimate thrill—the most taboo type of pornography and one of the most taboo subjects there is in Western society.

The road to CP is not strictly as I described. For instance, the man might get into gay porn before bestiality or even public sex. However, I have provided a general outline on how far it can go and how people get there. I ask that you do not take the most serious escalation of porn addiction as likely for many porn addicts. Many heterosexual porn addicts might not even get into gay porn. Additionally, I am not saying all pedophiles became pedophiles through porn addiction. The therapist I conversed mentioned the transition to child porn in regards to how far porn addiction could go. Once again, watching porn or getting addicted to it doesn’t mean you will become a pedophile; it’s just how some people got there.