Actress Jada Pinkett Smith recently revealed shes struggled with an unhealthy relationship to porn in her past.

On Mondays episode of her Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk, Pinkett Smith said she had a little porn addiction back in the day but later clarified: I actually feel like I was using addiction a little lightly. And maybe Ill say now that I had an unhealthy relationship to porn at one point in my life where I was trying to practice abstinence.

In the episode, Pinkett Smith said she was using pornography to fill an emotional void.

It was actually like filling an emptiness, at least you think it is, she explained during the conversation with her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, and daughter, Willow Smith. But its actually not.

In a world of smartphones, tablets and laptops, X-rated content is now more accessible than ever. While many people are able to enjoy porn in healthy ways, for others, it can become an unhealthy obsession that leads to a host of issues.

We talked to experts to find out if compulsive porn use can be classified as a true addiction, and how to spot the signs that porn use has veered into potentially harmful territory.

Porn addiction is not a diagnosable disorder at least not yet.

In the mental health community, theres been some debate about whether compulsive pornography use should actually be considered an addiction , and in turn, how it should be treated .

Neither porn addiction nor the more general sex addiction appear in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the handbook health care professionals use to classify and diagnose mental health conditions. While there was some discussion about adding hypersexual disorder, which would include compulsive pornography use, to the DSM-5, ultimately the proposal was rejected because of a lack of conclusive research .

In 2018, compulsive sexual behavior disorder was added as an impulse control disorder (not an addiction disorder) in the World Health Organizations International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Some experts say compulsive pornography use could be manifestation of CSBD, a disorder characterized by a persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges resulting in repetitive sexual behavior. But a specific addiction to porn is not a clinical diagnosis as of yet, according to mental health professionals.

Sex and porn addiction are terms that have been handed down to us over the years and may speak to how someone feels about their relationship with porn, but theyre not diagnostically useful categories in my opinion, sex therapist and author Ian Kerner told HuffPost.

Interestingly, gambling addiction, which was previously listed as an impulse control disorder in the DSM, is now considered an addictive disorder , along with substance use disorders like alcoholism and substance abuse.

A substantial number of individuals spend excessive amount of time viewing pornography. While this alone doesnt make it a mental health disorder, when they pursue pornography despite risks of emotional harm to self or others, experience significant adverse consequences like termination from work and feel unable to reduce or stop this behavior, it starts to look a lot like other mental health problems such as gambling disorder, said Rory Reid , an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles.