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Her Cheating Heart: Understanding Why She Cheated on You
Source: Her Cheating Heart: Understanding Why She Cheated on You | Psychology Today First things first: If you’re female and reading this wondering why I’m only writing about women who cheat, know that a post I published a few months ago — “13 Reasons Why Men Cheat” —...
Porn Kills Hard Drives: How Hackers Steal Porn Consumers’ Info Every Day
How buying porn online may cost you much more than you imagined, as every day, hackers are stealing the personal information of porn consumers. Click here to read the full post. Source: Porn Kills Hard Drives: How Hackers Steal Porn Consumers' Info Every Day
Why Public Health Scholars should study Pornography
Pornography has implications for public health, but scholars need to think critically about the issue and look past rhetoric. Researcher Emily Rothman, Associate Professor of Community Health Services, Boston University, has caught the attention of an unlikely ally as...
How The Porn Industry Hijacks Natural Sexual Curiosity and Hooks Teens
The bloggers at Fight the New Drug take a look at how the Porn Industry specifically targets teens. Here is a tiny morsel of their full post, which is a reminder that the pursuit of money remains at the root of much evil: Sex is natural, porn is not. Porn taps into...
13 Reasons Why Men Cheat – Robert Weiss, LCSW
Hey, guys! Cheating is not the only option. Source: 13 Reasons Why Men Cheat After almost three decades of working with couples decimated by infidelity, I can tell you that men who cheat on a beloved wife or girlfriend can be amazingly creative when they try to...
“My Boyfriend Used to Watch Porn, But Then He Stopped” #Huh? – Strength to Fight
Strength to Fight’s Josh Gilman, questions the likelihood that a partner has truly kicked the porn habit, if he (or she) has never gone through any kind of recovery process. Habitual porn use is a hard habit to break! Our brains release the same cravings for its repeated use as for a street drug. The temptation to use can be irresistible and almost inescapable. Like drug and alcohol addictions, it may be our way of avoiding the real issues that trouble us. Our compulsion to use negatively impacts our ability to maintain a satisfying intimate relationship with a partner.
The Allure of Internet Pornography
Pornography on the internet is one of the most prolific Sex Addiction lures there is, it is very simple to find and available anywhere. Please read and be aware of how much is too much, what signs to look for that it could be becoming a problem and when to seek help.
Beyond The Talk: Raising and Protecting Children in A Pornified World
Source: Beyond The Talk: Raising and Protecting Children in A Pornified World Tickets, Sat, 28 Oct 2017 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite Description Computers, Smartphones, Gaming Systems. We’re living in a world of unending exposure to a wild west of information and...
How is Sexual Addiction Different from Other Addictions?
Sexual addiction is a real concern with real consequences. Whether referred to as an addiction, compulsive behaviour, or other adverse condition, sexual addiction is nowadays more widely recognized as a serious issue that can dramatically alter lives. What makes...
8 Celebrity Sex Addicts
Perhaps ironically, sex addiction is something that happens 'behind closed doors' in western society. We find it far easier to speak freely about alcoholism or drug addiction than we do sex addiction, and so create a cultural impression that sex addiction is less...
Why Your Inner Caveman Makes You Masturbate
The male brain evolved in a hunter-gatherer context but now lives in a technological world. Our brains have evolved to take advantage of opportunities to mate but cannot differentiate between opportunities we see on a screen and the ones that occur in real life. Due...
Understanding and Dealing With Internet Sex Addiction
The internet makes accessing sexually explicit content and conversation easier to access and keep discreet than it ever has been before. Pornography and Cybersex addiction are arguably the two most prevalent forms of sexual addiction in the modern age, but are so easy...
The 5 Stages of the Sexual Addiction Cycle, and How To Break It.
Sex addicts are stuck in a cycle. Their addiction is defined by a seemingly endless pattern that leads them again and again to doing the same empty things, feeling the same empty feelings, and thinking the same empty thoughts. Despite how hopeless escaping from that...
How Tinder is Designed to Control Your Mind
Most are not aware that the popular dating app Tinder has been designed very intentionally to keep its users swiping. Taking advantage of powerful cognitive mechanisms, the app hooks it's users, planting a seed in their mind that drives them to always come back to the...
Getting Help With Infidelity in Ottawa
If you've ever had a significant other cheat on you, you understand the hurricane of confusion and emotions that can result. We invest so much of our lives and identities into our relationships, and when we find out they are not what we thought they were, it can feel...