I contemplated whether or not to use the title above for a book I wrote on parenting and its relationship to addiction. But I decided to use it because I like the title for this reason: it focuses upon the parenting process and parental goals, more than the product-oriented goal…
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Should porn be used to spice up the bedroom?
Ready or not, pornography is a stronghold in the bedrooms of people who have sex. While some people believe that pornography will spice up the bedroom, the reality is that the increasing impact of pornography is anything but sexy.¹ How porn is rewriting the sexual script of digital natives I…
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If you are watching “Game of Thrones,” you are watching porn.
The hit HBO series Game of Thrones has won 26 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series in 2015, and has 18.6 million people watching each episode, an HBO record. That’s roughly the same population as America’s third most populated state, New York. That’s a lot of people. That’s a lot…
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A Tale of Two Sons
Being a parent in the digital age is difficult. The doorways to distorted and false information are wherever there is Internet access. Parents having the right conversations at the right times isn’t a guarantee that their children won’t make poor decisions, but recent data provided by The Barna Group prove that…
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5 Quick Tips for Staying Sexually Sober During the Holidays
This post has been updated as of November 2020. As a Sexual Integrity Mentor™, I see it happen every holiday season to many of the men I mentor. Slips. Relapses. People essentially take a holiday from their recovery, and as a result, fall back into many of their old sexual…
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6 Ways to Raise a Sex Addict
In my seven years of counseling sex addicts and their wives, I’ve seen some common themes amongst the sex addicts’ families of origin. I’d like to share them with you today. Here are six ways to raise a sex addict. In the chance that you’d rather focus on raising your…
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6 Groups of People Porn is Harming
by Jennifer Fountain The word “pornography” comes from the Greek word pornographos, which was used to describe writing about prostitutes. Prostitutes—not what many first think of when they view porn. In the world of pornography today, it’s easy to gloss over the harsh realities of what porn really is and…
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If Resolutions Fade: 6 Timeless Tools to Quit Porn
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? If you’re like the majority of the population (about 80-90%), you’ve given up by now, about six weeks in. All those lofty goals have gone out the window and you’re back to your old routine, your old problems, and your old habits. What…
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Porn and ED: 3 Peer-Reviewed Studies You Need to Read
Repeated porn consumption rewrites our sexual template, decreasing our arousal by single sexual partners. For a lot of guys, this results in porn-induced erectile dysfunction (PIED). We’ve covered the science behind porn-induced ED in other articles. In this post, we will explore the results of scientific studies on porn and ED that…
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Accountability Saved My Life
For anyone caught in a daily cycle of destructive behavior, it can be a struggle to hang on to the hope that it’s possible to beat your addiction. The story below, although it centers around an addiction to food, illustrates the power of accountability in our lives. With the right knowledge,…