XXX Rated Internet Porn Addiction

Pornography Is As Private As Your Own PC, And Can Become An Obsession
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Mark Searles is a family man, an insurance inspector, a devout Christian Ñ and a recovering Internet porn addict.

"It's just you and the computer; there is no one to tell you no," Searles told CBS News science and technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg.

Searles says for nearly a year he would sneak onto his home computer and indulge his fantasies Ñ for several hours at a time.

"What I'm doing I know is wrong, but it kind of pulls you in," he said. "When you become an addict, you forget everything else. All reasoning gets put way on the back burner."

But Searles' dirty little secret was exposed one day when his wife discovered some of the Web sites he'd been surfing.

"I was a combination of sad and angry and disappointed and hurt," Kim Searles said.

The world of pornography has clearly changed. Buying porn used to mean risking embarrassment. Today, porn is consumed in private, online, by an estimated 40 million Americans.