Link to TV segment (April 06, 2017). The 3-minute segment featured Gabe Deem, Dr. Donald Hilton, and AASECT certified sex therapist Emily Deayla, MA. My first concern is with the segment’s headline: “Self-proclaimed porn addict hopes to make porn harder to access” Two objections to this headline: 1) It spins Gabe’s porn addiction as “self-proclaimed”, […]
Update: Studies Finding Escalation (and Habituation) in Porn Users YBOP FAQ: Is my fetish porn-induced? It’s time to distinguish ‘sexual orientation’ from reversible ‘sexual tastes’ “The bulk of scientific evidence currently favors the view that the origins for most sexual desires are not cultural but innate.” —Leon F. Seltzer Such statements mislead people that all […]
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Understand your partner’s porn challenge and how you can help You have no particular objection to porn, but you love your partner and he has decided to give up Internet porn after using heavily for years. Here are 5 ways you can support his effort: 1. Understand why he’s quitting For your partner, porn isn’t […]
COMMENTS: In this paper, US Navy doctors warn of a possible link between internet porn use and sexual dysfunctions. The entire paper is well worth a read (see below) and also available here. It reviews more than 180 relevant papers, pointing out that traditional explanations for ED are insufficient to account for the recent jump […]