Treating Pornography Addiction: The Essential Tools for Recovery

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She then offers practical strategies for change that will ground and Connect the readers so they may find happiness and fulfillment in their daily lives. Our Take: Wilson has tapped into and opened a window into the experience of an emerging generation who have been taught that sex is pornography. They see the sexual world pornography portrays with its endless novelty, fake orgasms, and enhanced breasts as the sexual norm by which real females must be compared. As Naomi Wolf said, “Today, real naked women are just bad porn;” she was merely describing what Tinbergen had coined with the term “supernormal stimulus.” Sex Addiction 101 is intended to enlighten the clinical population as well as actual sex addicts and their loved ones. Our Take:

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Anyone who has struggled with sex addiction knows that living with constant sexual compulsions can be extremely difficult.Another book written by a recovering addict, Life After Lust mixes personal stories with prescriptions for improvement. This book is for those who don’t want to give up porn completely, but understand that it’s not always a benign harmless thing.

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Thanks to such easy access, today many millions of people all over the world use porn as a new drug – and as with other drugs, it often prevents them from having happy, healthy relationships. In chapter 6 called, “Your Spouse Is Not Your Methadone” the book dives into both female and male pornography use especially in the context of marriage. By recognizing and understanding the emotional forces underlying addictive behaviors, Dr. Dodes says any dangerous, life-destroying obsession can be overcome. Our Take: For example, if there's a particular time of the day that you masturbate, replace it with a social activity—at 7 P.M., after you're done with work, you can: text a friend, grab dinner with someone you're interested in, or play pool with your buddies.As much as we can, our task is to promote God’s vision of sexuality in relationships — a vision that appeals to the deepest desires of our kids’ hearts for the good, true, and beautiful — because that is what they’re made for… we are God’s beloved, made by love for love.” See a therapist if masturbation or porn interferes with your life. It’s perfectly normal if you’re struggling to stop completely. You may need additional strategies to help you quit, and a mental health professional can help you identify these. Consult a therapist to discuss why you feel the need to engage with your habits and the ways in which they impact your lifestyle. When you’re open and transparent, this trained expert can help you better understand your psychology and suggest ways to cope with your temptations. [18] X Research source For a lot of porn addicts, the problem isn’t just how much time they spend watching it – it’s how terrible they feel about themselves afterwards. Drawing from her experience both as a marriage and family therapist and a woman who personally experienced the devastation of sexual betrayal, Dr. Sheri Keffer walks women impacted by betrayal through the pain and toward recovery. She explains how the trauma of betrayal affects our minds, bodies, spirits, and sexuality. She offers practical tools for dealing with emotional triggers and helps women understand the realities of sexual addiction. Finally, she shows women how to practice self-care, develop healthy boundaries, protect themselves from abuse or manipulation, and find freedom from the burden of shame and guilt. Hope After Porn Restored: A Woman’s Guide To Overcoming Pornography by Alice Taylor is a Christian book on porn and women with helpful information for all women who struggle with porn. She doesn’t endorse a “just pray the porn away” approach, however.

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This masterpiece by Kevin B. Skinner, is an absolutely phenomenal work on porn addiction and how to treat it in a simple, but powerful process. Kevin clearly lays out the framework for how to be able to spot your own addiction and what your unique triggers are. His program is known to be very professional and highly effective. Of course not all the books listed in this list are for everyone as some writing styles apply better to some specific readers than others and this book is not an exception. Dr. Skinner’s style is one that is unique but I believe that it will truly help you out if you start to integrate the principles and teachings from this book. Another informative and free ebook by Covenant Eyes! Porn Stats provides some of the most up-to-date statistics on pornography usage, including the numbers on porn in the church, marriages, and kids. Finding up-to-date information about pornography use can be a daunting task for a researcher. This carefully documented compilation of stats, quotes, and figures is a perfect starting place for your own research. The Porn Myth

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In Addict America, she lays out a whole-person approach that will not only change your mindset, but help heal your wounded heart. Blue’s autobiography takes the title of her most iconic porn movie and is called Girlvert: A Porno Memoir. Released in 2011, it is an, at times, brutally honest account of the decade of her life that she spent working in the industry. Illuminating and charged with authenticity, the book is actually a rather beautiful read. It was received well by critics and she was even given the highest accolade of being compared to a literary genius: Matt Fradd’s book dives deep into this fact and the many other strategies pornography uses to grab hold of your attention, helping to weaken its hold in the process. The key is understanding the road to recovery from a sex/porn addiction goes through your childhood. Why? Because it’s your inner child who is running the show.

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Christmas, it’s often said, is a time for family, so I asked my son to answer this one for me: " He’s an all-right dad, but sometimes he’s really annoying. His most annoying habit is foraging for things in hedges. His books are actually quite good. He’s good about driving me to places. The dog loves him. He really likes Christmas. His best Christmas habit is that he loves Christmas trees, but he never wants to put them up as early as everyone else, then he always makes us keep them up till Twelfth Night." A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, GOODREADS Pornography did not serve him either. Andrei used to have his personal kinks and fetishes, but after a while, nothing could get him off. For a long time, the only videos he would search were the ones titled: “Who is she?” The only thing that vitalized his self-play was the prospect of some woman on the earth no one knew of and could not find. There was something infinite to these tapes, not the appearance of the girls, but the agitating dissatisfaction and momentary access of a not-so-innocent stranger who men innocently lost forever. It consisted of poorly recorded videos, posted from a smartphone or webcam, and a desperate number of melancholy comments trying to search for the mystery woman. There were plenty of these recordings. But it broke Andrei even more when eventually he knew all the girls no one knew.” So far, Your Brain on Porn has been translated into Dutch, Arabic, Hungarian, German, Korean, Turkish, Russian, Korean and Japanese. More translations are on the way. We are working on versions in Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Bengali. View translations.Author and former sex addict George N. Collins provides a step-by-step plan for combatting sexually compulsive behavior in his book. The fact that Collins himself used to struggle with sex addiction makes him uniquely qualified to give compassionate and understanding, yet still effective advice pertaining to sex addiction. This is the story of people who have acted to retake control of their lives and restore themselves to full sexual and emotional function. This is my story. This may be your story. Our Take: