Sex Addiction: Are Pastors More Vulnerable to Sexual Temptation (Opinion)
Find complete original post here: http://www.christianpost.com/news/sex-addiction-are-pastors-more-vulnerable-to-sexual-temptation-67935/ By: Alex Murashko Date: January 25, 2012 Although no one is immune to sexual temptation, a pastor leading an online pornography addiction recovery ministry says that church leaders may be especially vulnerable to sexually moral failure. Pastor Jeff Fisher, whose past secret addiction to pornography was discovered while pastoring a [...]
Careful, Addicted to Pornography (News)
Socyberty by Nurul Sakinah December 27, 2011 Currently estimated at more than 420 million adults regularly accessing pornographic sites. The rapid development of technology, particularly the internet, it makes pornography can be accessed easily and cheaply without sounding sleazy. Unfortunately, the site’s special adults also accessed by children. In 2004, the board of experts in [...]
Nigeria: Stream of Pornography On Our Streets (News)
A casual stroll through the streets of Abuja and other Nigerian cities will reveal a disconcerting trend of insidious pornograpy slowly creeping in. A young man within the age range of 30-35 years walks slowly towards a group of vendors selling DVDs and VCDs along the long stretch of road leading from the Nyanya expressway, [...]
Coping With Sex Addiction (News)
The Telegraph Sally Williams January 7, 2012 ‘I close the curtains, take the phone off the hook, turn off my mobile, and if I have plans – say a dinner with a friend – I just cancel. Then I log onto various websites and look at images, look at movies. It’s pure, unadulterated physical enjoyment. [...]
Md. duct-tape rapist pleads guilty in 5th case; sentence adds 50 years to his prison term (News)
Washington Post Associated Press January 3, 2012 HAGERSTOWN, Md. — An acknowledged pornography addict convicted of four sexual assaults in two states pleaded guilty Tuesday to a fifth — the 1998 rape of a woman whose hands were bound with duct tape by a man hiding in her car. Cambodian immigrant Pov Srun, 40, is [...]
Sexual addiction among women real and growing: Psychologists (NEWS)
By Sharon Kirkey Postmedia News January 5, 2012 Read full article here: http://www.canada.com/health/Sexual+addiction+among+women+real+growing+Psychologists/5952168/story.html#ixzz1igVCIwrC The women spend hours online looking at pornography or looking for sex. Some fantasize about being sexual in public. Others cruise bars looking for anonymous encounters with strangers. Tolerance builds and things get boring, so the women have to engage in ever-riskier [...]
Addicted to Online Porn (News)
Marine Corps Times By Jon R. Anderson Mar 31, 2010 The Marine staff sergeant knew things were spinning out of control. What he once thought was a harmless flirtation with online porn had become a full-blown obsession. But looking at photos and videos of men and women having sex wasn’t hurting anyone, he tried to [...]
Ominous News for Porn Users: Internet Addiction Atrophies Brains (News)
Psychology Today by Marnia Robinson & Gary Wilson June 25, 2011 Here’s some headline news for anyone who has been trained that Internet porn use is harmless: Physical evidence of addiction processes is showing up in the brains of avid Internet video-gamers. What’s more, use of online erotica has greater potential for becoming compulsive than [...]
Watching Pornography in Public a Sign that a Person is Addicted (News)
Help Nov. 29, 2011 Psychologists have claimed that a sure fire way of determining whether a person’s pornography intake has become too much is whether they view the material in public. Whilst psychologists have said that utilising a one-size-fits-all policy may not be the best way to go about it, finding that a person is [...]
Military Sexual Trauma Related to PTSD (News)
Psych Central By ROBERT WEISS LCSW, CSAT-S Many military veterans suffer from PTSD related to experiences of sexual trauma. An even greater concern is the alarming amount of stigma surrounding the discussion and treatment of PTSD and addiction within the military community. In recent decades, these addictions and coping mechanisms have become more sexualized, manifesting [...]
Pornography’s Effects on Adults and Children (Research)
by Victor B. Cline, PhD (c) 2002 Abstract: Whether pornography has any significant harmful effects on consumers continues to be a controversial issue, not only for average citizens but also for behavioral scientists. Some social commentators claim that pornography is mainly a form of entertainment, possibly educational, sometimes sexually arousing, but essentially harmless. Or, [...]
He’s Just Not that Into Anyone (Opinion)
New York News and Features By Davy Rothbart Jan. 30, 2011 *This article contains strong language. I met the woman at a Broadway show, but the night’s best piece of acting, I’d say, came from me, back at her East Village apartment, after we’d been having sex for about 25 minutes, with Neil Young wailing [...]
Link Between Child Porn and Sex Abuse ‘frightening and powerful’ (Opinion)
Deseret News By Emiley Morgan Nov. 28, 2011 Samuel Seager doesn’t know whether it was child pornography that led him to sexually abuse his 12-year-old victim or not. “I think, for my case, it was coincidence that they both happened at the same time — but maybe not,” he said from the Duchesne County Jail. [...]
The Sex Addiction Epidemic (Opinion)
The Daily Beast by Chris Lee Nov. 25, 2011 Valerie realized that sex was wrecking her life right around the time her second marriage disintegrated. At 30, and employed as a human-resources administrator in Phoenix, she had serially cheated on both her husbands—often with their subordinates and co-workers—logging anonymous hookups in fast-food-restaurant bathrooms, affairs with [...]
Clergy, Too, Battle Porn Addiction — Often Alone (News)
The Huff Post: Religion by Peggy Fletcher Stack Nov. 25, 2011 For years, the Rev. Bernie Anderson carried a shameful secret — one he feared would destroy his marriage, his career, his standing in the community, even his spiritual identity. He was addicted to pornography. Like many others facing a similar struggle, the pastor, now [...]
