Why Getting Married Didn’t Make My Porn Obsession Go Away Article
“I couldn’t hold down long-term relationships because I never knew how to properly have one. All my information about love was from the porn I watched.”
“I couldn’t hold down long-term relationships because I never knew how to properly have one. All my information about love was from the porn I watched.”
“I grabbed his phone to change the music he was playing. I could see it in his face straight away that there was something he didn’t want me to see.”
The share of US adults reporting no sex in the past year reached an all-time high in 2018. Experts cite everything from living with parents to increased screen time as the culprits.
Taxi-driver themed porn makes men think women will be more likely to engage in unprotected, rough sex with strangers, the new study suggests.
“Mummy!”—my four-year-old daughter exclaimed loudly as she swung into the empty seat—”that man has got pictures of ladies with big boobies!”
Youth today are getting the majority of their sex education from watching porn, and what it’s teaching is having a negative impact on their understanding of sex and consent.
“Tony was exposed to porn for the first time when he was eight years old. He had been viewing porn for eleven years by the time we had met.”
“Since him, I have found it so easy to put away the porn. I am in my first relationship where I have been able to say ‘I love you’ without secrets.”
“Toward the end of the relationship, when his obsession with porn seemed to be at an all-time high, he got more controlling and sexually assaulted me.”
The evidence can’t be ignored that porn does influence how people think about sex. What sexual expectations are these themes influencing our generation and the next to have?
As more and more research comes out about how porn negatively affects consumers and relationships, a lot of porn’s problems are no big secret anymore.
It’s no secret that the adolescent brain is unique from that of adults, but what is it exactly that makes the teenage brain so different, and is it all bad?