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While the scientific community is yet to form a consensus over whether this type of compulsive behaviour can be described as an addiction – though the efforts of people like Dr Valerie Voon, a neuropsychiatrist at the University of Cambridge whose work involves comparing the brain patterns of porn users with those of substance abusers and gambling addicts, is laying the foundations for this area of research – there's enough anecdotal evidence to suggest that it's a real problem.