Is porn really destroying 500,000 marriage annually? (Opinion)
Originally posted at Psychology Today here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/inside-porn-addiction/201112/is-porn-really-destroying-500000-marriages-annually By Kevin B. Skinner, Ph.D. 12/12/2011 In a 2004 testimony before the United States Senate, Dr. Jill Manning shared some interesting data regarding pornography and relationships. In her research she found that 56 percent of divorce cases involved one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites.1 Another source, the American Academy of Matrimonial [...]
MEDIA MUST DO BETTER ON PORN DEBATE (Opinion)
Article originally appeared here: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/02/01/3420737.htm By: Emma Rush 2/1/2012 The media is conspicuously failing to live up to its role with respect to the porn debate. The latest exhibit: recent coverage of Melinda Tankard Reist and her work against pornography. The great liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that freedom of speech matters because it is [...]
Porn blamed for children’s problem sexual behaviour (OPINION)
Find article originally posted here: http://www.theage.com.au/national/porn-blamed-for-childrens-problem-sexual-behaviour-20120113-1pzhh.html#ixzz1kylnfAJI By Adrian Lowe January 14, 2012 VICTORIAN children as young as five are being referred to specialist programs to address sexually abusive behaviour – and the number of minors exhibiting such behaviour is exploding. The availability of pornography through portable devices drastically affects a child’s understanding of acceptable sexual [...]
‘I Was Drugged And Forced To Do Porn’: Surviving The Sex Trade (NEWS)
A look at how human trafficking victims fare in life and love after surviving the sex trade. Samantha* is 30 years old. She is a makeup artist, a nanny, a professing Christian and an advocate against human trafficking. This cause is near and dear to her heart because she has been there herself. At the [...]
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 [...]
How Pimps Use the Web to Sell Girls (Opinion)
Find full, original post here at New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/opinion/how-pimps-use-the-web-to-sell-girls.html?_r=1 By: Nicholas D. Kristof In November, a terrified 13-year-old girl pounded on an apartment door in Brooklyn. When a surprised woman answered, the girl pleaded for a phone. She called her mother, and then dialed 911. Damon Winter/The New York Times * The girl, whom I’ll call [...]
The Women Who Love Men Who Love Porn (Opinion)
Fearless Blog December 20, 2011 Let’s be real. Everyone’s uncomfortable right now. I know, and I’m sorry. But the purpose of Fearless has become to talk about the things that no one will talk about. So let’s do this. Deep breaths.{disclaimer: this isn’t about my relationships. k? I don’t want this to look like I’m [...]
Pornography—or Persons as Objects (Opinion)
CatholicCulture.org By Dr. Jeff Mirus December 06, 2011 Did you know that more than 80% of all pornographic web pages originate in the United States? As with so many other things, we Americans are the chief exporters of pornography to the world. One could make a powerful foreign policy case against pornography, as it is [...]
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 [...]
Confessions of an Online Porn Junkie (Opinion)
by Ryan Duggins November 17, 2011 Young men have been looking at pictures of naked women ever since a giggling Stone Age teenager daubed a crude outline of one of the more shapely females of his tribe on a cave wall, without her bearskin on, and grunted to his mate: ‘Come and have a look [...]
Internet Porn and Sexual Dysfunction (Opinion)
Chron.com by Mary Jo Rapini When I get a call from a Urologist to refer a patient suffering erectile dysfunction, my mind typically sees a 50 plus year old gentleman. Recently this image in my mind is being replaced with a 20 plus year old that is addicted to internet porn. Viewing porn has been around [...]
The Pornography Pandemic (Opinion)
Knights of Columbus by Patrick Trueman October 28, 2011 Catholics have a duty to fight against pornography and its devastating spiritual and societal consequences. In a conversation with a priest in my diocese, I shared my spiritual director’s report that every other confession he hears from men involves the sin of pornography. The pastor’s response [...]
Utah Faith Leaders Battle the Hidden Sin: Porn addiction (Opinion)
The Salt Lake Tribune Nov. 14, 2011 by PEGGY FLETCHER STACK For years, the Rev. Bernie Anderson carried with him 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. And, like many others facing a similar struggle, the [...]
