Pornography
Effects of
Porn Addiction
Please talk to your kids about porn and use filters to block it. Screenagers has a link on how to do this:
Screenagers Article: How to talk to kids about pornSafety before Privacy
Ask if you run into something iffy online how will you handle it?
American Express in the United States will no longer process accounts on adult Internet sites. This is due to a large number of disputed card charges associated with the Web porn sites. Other credit card companies are threatening fines for these sites if more customers dispute their bills.
Porn companies say disputes occur when clients' charges are exposed. For instance, officials say, when the customer's spouse sees the bill, the immediate reaction is denial: "Hey, that wasn't me. These guys are sending us e-mail, now they're charging our credit card."
You can access porn from a Playstation, Xbox, Instagram etc.
69% or males and 23% of females first viewing at age 13(Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public health, 2024)
Delivered on demand in endless supply… wiring pleasure centres of brain. 27% of unfiltered internet is pornographic! Resource: protectyoungeyes.com
Sensory overload – videos replace imagination, real people become less rewarding. People can become a product.
Fuels Sex Trafficking Industry - when watching porn you could be watching a trafficking victim (Donna M. Hughes international researcher on human trafficking).
Porn sites get more traffic in a day than Netflix, Twitter and Amazon combined! In 1 year one porn website posted 4, 599, 000, 000 hours of porn.
Juvenile erectile dysfunction – real life interactions don’t arouse them because used to extreme.
Exposed far too young before knowing about healthy sexuality . Exposed to senior level porn.
Support for
Pornogaphy Addiction
& Sexual Dysfunction
You can put restrictions on your cell phone or other devices and give someone else the password so you cannot get past them. Be aware that people access porn through Instagram, Reddit and gaming consoles as well.
Some people find it helpful to go back to non-online formats as a harm reduction approach. Magazines, etc. or to go between the two as a form of harm reduction to start.
Some other ideas are:
Move furniture around.
Where you use activates the craving. You could put your bed in another area, no technology in bedrooms. One client took their TV out of the bedroom and that helped.
Consider using a day counting app to show how long you have gone.
This can help with motivation.
Join a forum for support
Write down why you want to stop and the benefits.
Free Training for Porn Addiction
The Reward Foundation introduces some tools and approaches to enable you, or someone you care for, to find the strength and determination to escape from the grip of compulsive internet porn use. They cover the full quitting porn journey from start to finish.
