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"My Strange Addiction" is a "reality" TV show and absolutely not a source to take any psychology perspective from. I wouldn't even trust it's definition of "addiction". The only episode I remember was one of a woman "addicted" to consuming her cremated partner's ashes, which sounds like a grief/trauma coping mechanism, and is all around sad.
You list these strawman examples. Fine. Those are made up scenarios. There has been violence, sexism, racism, in the earliest records of civilization, and porn has only existed for the last century... Maybe. You know where I first got exposed to the idea "women should be like children" or "[men]'re entitled to women's bodies"? The Catholic Church.
You're describing porn the way the DARE campaign described drugs. At least the DARE campaign was talking about a physical chemical compound.
Porn addiction is real. If you can’t accept that then therein lies the problem.