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Porn as Good Therapy
What are the underlying reasons men need porn? While looking through a classic collection of articles by men called Men Confront Pornography (1990, Kimmel, M. S. Ed.) which I thought might help my sex...
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Is it Possible to Tune out Sexy Women?
You don’t have to be a sex addict to get totally distracted by a great looking woman (or a great looking man for that matter, especially if you are gay). But everybody looks at women; men look at...
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Is “Real” Sex Healthier Than Porn and Cybersex?
Many sex addiction therapists base their thinking on the idea that real or “relational” sex, sex with a real person as opposed to porn, cybersex or masturbation is healthier in some way. They tend to...
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New Anti-Porn Laws on the Way
You hear a lot about the potential evils of the online pornography epidemic. Now some governments are starting to make moves to seriously regulate the availability of pornography. Their attitudes and...
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More on Anti Porn Laws and a Correction
In my April 6 2013 post “New Anti Porn Laws on the Way” I described recent attempts by three countries to make and/or enforce laws that would effectively prohibit adult pornography on the internet,...
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Women in the Porn, Sex and Webcam Industry: How are They Doing?
No matter where you get your data it is clear that online pornography is very big business. Whether you look at attempts to measure page views for the top porn sites (over 5 billion per month), porn...
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Porn Addiction Relapse: The Pros and Cons of a Harm Reduction Approach
Porn Addiction can be notoriously hard to quit. Relapse is the norm, at least in the initial months of recovery. Many recovering porn addicts quit for a long period, sometimes by giving up their...
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Legal Traps for Internet Porn Users: 5 Ways You Can Get in Trouble
There are many ways in which the mere viewing of adult internet pornography can get you in trouble. Many porn users and porn addicts are unaware of these legal traps or choose not to think about them....
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What Do Addictive Sexual Fantasies Mean?
Wouldn’t we all like a way to interpret our sexual fantasies? Where do they come from? What do they mean? Often sexual fantasies seem to take hold for no apparent reason. Their meaning seems like...
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Overcoming Cravings for Porn and Addictive Sex
The most important thing to realize about the struggle to resist the urge to “act out” with addictive sexual behaviors and internet pornography is that resistance really is futile. Sayings like...
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Can Ritalin Help Cure Sex Addicts?
Those who are struggling with sex addiction or porn addiction have absolutely no doubt that they are in the grip of a real addiction. They cannot seem to control their sexual impulses, they decide...
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Porn-Proofing Your Life to Avoid Sex Addiction Relapse
Not everyone who watches internet pornography is a porn or sex addict. But the highly addictive nature of internet pornography and the harmful effects for those who struggle to break free from a...
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Don’t Call it Hypersexuality: Why we Need the Term Sex Addiction
What does it mean to say that sex addiction “exists” or “doesn’t exist” apart from the fact that denying it’s existence or rebutting the denials can get you your 15 minutes of fame. A diagnostic term...
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Porn Addiction as a type of Internet Addiction
Is internet porn addiction related to internet addiction? I don’t know of any data specifically on this point. My colleague Maria Robinson believes that porn addiction is “above all, an internet...
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Film “Don Jon”: Love, Porn and Patriarchy
“Don Jon” (starred in, written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a lot more than just a skillful and entertaining piece of film making. It is among other things, a serious portrayal of intimacy...
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Feminist Porn: A Force for Good?
Feminist porn has a split personality. Or maybe even a multiple personality. It is a potpourri of causes, similar to the “movement” of the 1960’s which lumped together women’s rights, the anti-war...
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Most sex addicts who are trying to quit using internet pornography find it harder than they ever thought. Some simply can’t face quitting. A porn addict who has lost his job for using porn at work...
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Do Porn Addicts Cheat on their Partners?
Not all porn addicts cheat. But compulsively watching porn all the time doesn’t guarantee that the addict won’t find time to be unfaithful. This is a complex question with no simple answer and no...
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How to Make Revenge Porn Illegal
If you pose for a nude photo or make a sexual video of yourself should your ex-partner be allowed to post it on a “revenge porn” site without your consent? And if this happens to you, what are your...
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The Bogus Sex Addiction “Controversy” and the Purveyors of Ignorance
I still sometimes read a newspaper. Today’s LA Times had the absolutely best article I have seen in years. It is called “Sowing Doubt About Science” by Michael Hiltzik. Agnotology, the study of the...
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