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Who is Vulnerable to Compulsive/Addictive Porn Use?
Once upon a time, accessing pornography was difficult, expensive, and potentially embarrassing. And until very recently, nearly all of the porn produced was geared toward heterosexual men. Because of...
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The Consequences of Compulsive Porn Use
In a previous post to this site, I discussed how therapists can clinically define and diagnose porn compulsivity/addiction (as a form of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder), and how problematic,...
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What is Porn Addiction/Compulsivity?
Although the American Psychiatric Association has willfully ignored our nation’s ongoing sex and porn addiction/compulsivity epidemic, other organizations, equally if not more prominent, have chosen to...
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Not Every Porn User Struggles, But Some Do
A Form of Escape Today, we live in greater stress than most of us have ever experienced, and many of us are reaching to distractions for comfort and escape –TV, overeating, spending, alcohol, drugs,...
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Parkinson’s and Hypersexual Behavior
A few days ago, I was in a coffee shop and overheard two sisters discussing their grandfather and his recent sexual behaviors. One said, “I was at the grocery with him yesterday and he was hitting on...
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The Porn Panic: Is Porn a ‘Public Health Crisis’?
Several weeks ago, I was invited overseas to speak about Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorders (CSBD) at an Australian public health conference. This conference was the leading edge of a larger current...
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Porn in the Family: Filtering/Blocking Software vs. Tracking/Monitoring Software
As I wrote a few weeks ago in a post to Psychology Today, accessing pornography used to be difficult. Then technology happened. First, we got softcore on cable. Next, we got hardcore on VHS tapes...
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Six Reasons People Quit Using Porn
Let me begin this post by stating that I am neither anti-porn nor pro-porn. As a sexologist and addiction treatment specialist, it is not in my job description to judge any mutually consensual sexual...
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Treating Different Categories of Sex/Porn Addicts
In my previous post to this site, I discussed the difference between traditional, trauma-driven sex/porn addicts and a new and rapidly growing subcategory of sex/porn addicts that I refer to as...
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What It’s Like for an Addict to Quit Using Porn? An Interview with Noah...
Noah Church is a well-known speaker on issues related to porn addiction and the author of Wack: Addicted to Internet Porn, an educational look at how internet porn affects its users. Additionally, he...
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What It’s Like to Be a Porn Addict? An Interview with Noah Church (Part 1)
Noah Church is a well-known speaker on issues related to porn addiction. He is also the author of Wack: Addicted to Internet Porn, an educational look at how internet porn affects its users....
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The Identifying Characteristics of Sex and Porn Addicts
Medical and psychological professionals generally identify addictions and compulsions to repeat a pleasurable activity based on the following three criteria: Preoccupation to the point of obsession...
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One Woman’s Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction: An Interview with Erica...
At various points, I’ve written about the difficulties women encounter when trying to recover and heal from sex, porn, and love addiction. For starters, they can be more difficult to diagnose because...
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Five FACTS About Porn
Today, digital pornography is a hot topic. Very hot. Beliefs and opinions about porn’s availability, use, and effects abound, but facts are relatively scarce. There are pro-porn factions who think porn...
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Debunking Myths About Sexual Addiction
At the age of 20, Steven came out as gay to his highly religious parents. As members of a very conservative sect, they struggled to accept his “choice” as “normal,” and they decided to seek advice...
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With Sex Addiction, Sobriety Looks Different for Every Addict
There is a lot of confusion and misinformation about sexual addiction, much of which centers around the way in which “sexual sobriety” is (and is not) defined. For starters, a lot of people, including...
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Infidelity: Why Do Men Cheat?
In my recently published book, Out of the Doghouse: A Step-by-Step Relationship-Saving Guide for Men Caught Cheating, I define infidelity as “the breaking of trust that occurs when you keep intimate,...
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What is Sex, Porn, and Sexting Rehab All About?
OK, sex addiction and sex addiction treatment are in the news again. This sort of thing typically happens at least a few times a year. The regular news cycle is burbling along, and then some famous...
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Men, Pornography, and the Desire to Quit
A few months ago I wrote about a recent French study looking at porn use among adult males and its consequences. In that study the research team concluded, among other findings, that men who look at...
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Pornography: Shame-Based Clients vs. Addicted Clients
Just Because a Client Says He’s Porn Addicted… As digital technologies become more ubiquitous and porn usage becomes more prevalent and socially acceptable, clinicians, especially certified sex...
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