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In those rare times lately when I sit back and take stock of myself, I can see that I’m spending hour after hour, evenings and weekends, just sitting around staring at porn. Instead of actually having “a life,” I’ve lost precious hours, days, weeks, months, and even years to isolation and loneliness. Most days I can’t wait for work to end so I can get home to my porn collection. Whoever says this problem doesn’t exist should try walking in my shoes for a few days.

—Jack, forty-four, cable TV installer

I don’t know what it is to have a real relationship because all I’ve ever experienced is webcam hookups and porn.

—Kate, twenty-two, college student

My fiancée is cheating, but she won’t admit it. Over the past six months she has “friended” a bunch of men on Facebook, and her phone is loaded with sexts that she sent to random guys. She says she’s not doing anything wrong because she never meets any of them in-person and it’s just a game for her. But it doesn’t feel that way to me. I don’t know what to do.

—Franklin, thirty-one, investment banker