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John had a dark secret. He was a respectable man, with a successful career, a beautiful wife and four great kids. Yet he was addicted to internet pornography. He had never dreamed that one day he would struggle with such an addiction, and now he hated himself for it. View more at http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column.php?n=1491 Date Published: […]
Why would I, a healthy guy in his thirties, need to fake an orgasm? It was mystifying. I wasn’t on antidepressants, which I’d heard could decrease sensation. I got plenty of exercise. It didn’t seem to matter which woman I was with, or what kind of condom we used, or whether I’d downed one glass […]
Introduction to Article: “Scott, a successful lawyer with a wife and two children, showed up at my office for his first session confused and angry about his relationship with pornography. He could see the damage his Internet porn habit was having on his marriage, health, and career, but he couldn’t stay away from it. His […]
SEX THERAPIST Wendy Maltz recalls talking to a woman who found a stash of hard-core porn videos and magazines in her father’s bedroom after he died. “No matter how much I tried not to let it bother me, it changed the way I think about him,” Maltz, in an article in Psychotherapy Networker , recalls […]
Statistics have shown heavy pornography consumption by a male doubles the likelihood that he will sexually assault his partner. Despite this horrifying statistic, pornography is a mainstream commodity. It is accessible to any viewer in a variety of settings and brings in billions of dollars each year. In the United States alone, it generates over […]
The new world of porn is revealing eternal truths about men and women. This is a long opinion-piece article. It talks about the increased availability of hard-core pornography in the present internet age and explains how this reveals many lines between men and women. Read the article at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/hard-core/8327/1/ Date published: 01/2011 Author: NATASHA VARGAS-COOPER
Internet Porn is Ruining Your Relationship: XXX Marks the Rot (Opinion)
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Title: Internet porn is ruining your relationship: XXX marks the rot Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/internet-porn-ruining-relationship-xxx-marks-rot-article-1.149668#ixzz2qTzrBEnP
Publication: NY Daily News
Author: Rachel Henes
Date: 02/01/2011
Yet behind such casual commentary is increasing densensitization toward a $13 billion industry that fuels a warped version of sex in which female sexuality exists solely to serve men’s needs. This narrow depiction of sex has become standardized within pornography and is routinely reinforced to its 75 million monthly viewers. And that is having a […]
The Squalid Truth About Pornography (Opinion)
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Title: The Squalid Truth About Pornography
Publication: News Real Blog
Author: Megan Fox, FRONTPAGEMAG
Date: 05/01/2011
There is an accepted theory that while pornography is generally repulsive, there isn’t much we can do about it without limiting the freedoms of people to take part in personally harmful or immoral things. You can’t legislate morality, some say. I agree with that to a point, but we don’t have to turn our public […]
Porn: A Multibillion-Dollar Industry That Renders All Authentic Desire Plastic (Opinion)
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Title: Porn: a multibillion-dollar industry that renders all authentic desire plastic
Publication: The Guardian
Author: Gail Dines
Date: 04/01/2011
January in Las Vegas. The sun, the shows, the casinos – and yes, the Adult Entertainment Expo, the world’s biggest porn convention. Every January pornographers from all over the world descend on Las Vegas to participate in seminars, learn about industry trends, network with peers, meet the new “creative” talent, and keep up with the […]
Hard Core (Opinion)
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Title: Hard Core
Publication: The Atlantic
Author: Natasha Vargas-Cooper
Date: 01/01/2011
The new world of porn is revealing eternal truths about men and women. The difficulty of acquiring this material may have hinted at a great, and therefore pent-up, demand. Then, technology produced the Second Coming: the Inter net. And then the Rapture itself: broadband. Pornography is now, indisputably, omnipresent: in 2007, a quarter of all […]