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‘The biggest change we’ve seen over the past few years is that pornography has gone from something that was considered naughty to the norm among young people,’ says Anastasia Sprout, a psychotherapist specialising in porn addiction.
-@StaciSprout
“15-year-olds watching nude pictures of themselves being shared at parties and projected on the walls, desperate tales of children too terrified to tell adults about the culture of harassment, assault and sexual humiliation...”
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"Roughly half of twentysomething men watch adult material at least once a monthly, according to recent surveys. But experts have now sounded the alarm over the damage that viewing pornography can have on women."
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“I found that the more I watched, the more extreme the content had to be for me to find it exciting,’ says Kristel. ‘In the end I was watching stuff I would never choose in real life, like men being aggressive towards women.”
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"You know you have a bad problem when you're only 16 years old and have had a serious porn addiction for more than half your life (yes, do the math- pre puberty)."
Many children are getting addicted to porn before going on a first date or having a first kiss.
This is not okay.
Great to see the International Society for Sexual Medicine acknowledge porn-induced sexual dysfunctions.
“The good news is that reducing or abandoning this behavior can improve pornography-induced sexual dysfunction and eventually lead to a full recovery.” - @ISSM_INFO
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“I feel, for the first time in my whole adult life, that I’m a real human being.
If you need some motivation to keep going, then listen, every day that passes, you feel more and more human. More and more alive.”
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“Right now there are many, many, many young men who have problems with sexual dysfunction because of the impact porn has had on them.”
The new documentary The Great Flop explores porn’s impact on young people:
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New documentary THE GREAT FLOP
“Pornography is wreaking havoc on young people by raising their sexual expectations to levels that are impossible to meet and leading to an epidemic of sexual disorders.”
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Today’s porn is easy to access, available 24/7, free and private. It affords unlimited novelty.
The way it’s used commonly keeps dopamine elevated for abnormally long periods, making internet porn uniquely compelling, and potentially addictive.
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“A range of benefits attributed to abstinence by members suggest that abstaining from pornography could potentially be a beneficial intervention for problematic pornography use”
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You don't NEED to use porn, no matter what your brain says.
No matter how intense the craving is.
You just WANT to use porn.
Civilization has gotten by without porn for thousands of years.
You can too.
Recovery is possible.
You CAN do this.