Porn Addiction and Sex Addiction: What’s the Difference? (Opinion)

Posted on April 4, 2013, in Addiction, Marriage, Opinion, Relationships

READ ARTICLE HERE Is there a difference between the person who carries on with one secret sexual affair after another and the person entranced by Internet pornography? Are sexual behaviors like affairs, sex with prostitutes, and anonymous sex a greater risk of harm to an individual or a relationship, or is pornography the greater risk? [...]

Study: Watching porn boosts support for same-sex marriage (NEWS)

Posted on February 5, 2013, in Marriage, News

There is no delicate way to say this: Exposure to pornography softens opposition to same-sex marriage among the largest group of naysayers, heterosexual men. A new scholarly analysis suggests that the more straight guys, especially those who are less educated, watch pornographic videos, the more they warm to same-sex marriage. The reason: Porn opens their [...]

Porn Use and Supporting Same-Sex Marriage (Opinion)

Posted on January 16, 2013, in Marriage, Men, Opinion

Mark Regnerus December 20, 2012 Find original article here: http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/12/7048/ Recently I read the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy article by Sherif Girgis, Robert P. George, and Ryan T. Anderson, titled “What Is Marriage?” (The article, I am told, has been extensively revised and expanded, and has just been released as a book.) Their explanation of marriage’s distinctiveness [...]

More churches offer counseling for sex addiction (News)

Posted on January 16, 2013, in Marriage, Relationships, Religion

Abby Acone Oct 6, 2012 Find original article here: http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/More-churches-offer-counseling-for-sex-addiction-172990681.html It is a staggering number— each year, the U-S porn industry makes $14 billion — and more money than the entire NFL. And as those profits rise, it’s leading to leading to a public health problem that most people don’t want to acknowledge— sex addiction. Action [...]

Hard-Core Porn: The Cancer of Marriage (OPINION)

Posted on September 18, 2012, in Family, Marriage, Opinion

Find full article here: http://divorcereform.us/hard-core-porn-the-cancer-of-marriage/ By Mike McManus 9/5/12 Hard-core pornography is a contributing factor in more than half of all divorces. It is also addicting our youth, distorting their values, and rendering many young men sexually dysfunctional. Believe it or not, “Current federal obscenity laws not only prohibit distribution of hardcore pornography on the [...]

Porn Addiction is Ruining Families (Statistics)

Posted on July 30, 2012, in Marriage, Statistics

an estimated 40 million people use this drug on a regular basis Internet users who had had an extramarital affair were 3.18 times more likely to have used online porn than Internet users who had not had an affair. 68 percent of couples in which one person was addicted to Internet porn, one or both [...]

Safeguarding Yourself, Your Partner, and Your Marriage: Principles to Discussing Pornography in Dating and Beyond (Opinion)

Posted on July 30, 2012, in Marriage, Opinion, Relationships

Safeguarding Yourself, Your Partner, and Your Marriage: Principles to Discussing Pornography in Dating and Beyond[1] By Thomas Alvord[2] Posted here. Pornography is pervasive and pernicious. Nearly 70% of college-aged men and 10% of college-aged women have viewed pornography in the last month.[3] Over 50% of divorces involve one spouse having an excessive interest in internet pornography.[4] Pornography [...]

Addicted To Porn: X-rated Internet explosion wreaks havoc with troops’ careers, lives (News)

Posted on April 12, 2012, in Addiction, Marriage, Military, News

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.

Is porn really destroying 500,000 marriage annually? (Opinion)

Posted on February 1, 2012, in Marriage, Opinion, Relationships

If these numbers are accurate, here’s a very sobering statistic. Every year for the past decade there have been roughly 1 million divorces in the United States. If half of the people divorcing claim pornography as the culprit, that means there are 500,000 marriages annually that are failing due to pornography.

Pornography—or Persons as Objects (Opinion)

Posted on December 7, 2011, in Family, Marriage, Men, Opinion, Relationships, Societal, Women

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 [...]