Hooked - Why and How?

The initial trigger was exposure to pornography when I was a young boy when my elder brother left out what was [by today's standards] a very 'tame' magazine of females in various states of undress.
Curiousity won and a kind of secret, personal life unfolded. A boy in the first year of my high school later told me about masturbation and it followed from there. The two went together and I was 'on the hook' and it felt good.

When I was old enough to go out to earn a living, I bought my first magazines - 'girly' magazines mostly and I recall that I could hardly wait to get a mag home and open it. That was a lifetime ago.

The urge to view pornography left me when I met my wife and resurfaced some years later when digital TV first arrived - now the images that had been static were moving and the senses were being stirred again.

A year or so later and I found myself subscribing to a digital TV porn channel. The Internet would soon replace that source as it was more secretive and there was more of it.