Watching Adult Content Help

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As a woman operating in the divorce arena, I am privy to numerous direct information on the private feelings of spouses because they connect with porn usage by one or the other. Several female clients have come to me, I believe expecting that as a woman myself I will take their side, to talk about that their husband has most certainly wandered into the desolate path called sex addiction. I ask why they believe because of this, as well as the answer will be the same each time - they found him watching porn.

That has always struck me as at least a bit of a stretch. I happen to enjoy watching a bit of porn myself occasionally, and I know an abundance of healthy, successful and un-stymied-by-porn-watching men and women that do also.

Maybe my friends and I aren’t a sizable enough sample to find out that watching porn is harmless. There are plenty who could argue that the APA is made up of human beings who are capable of making mistakes or intentionally choosing to exclude ideas with which they do not agree. And yes, simply because a disorder has not yet been formally accepted does not mean it may not actually exist.

But should the satisfaction in your sex life primarily comes through porn, you well may find yourself wanting to watch porn over and over. This starts to create new pathways within the brain that reward you for watching a growing number of porn, adult content - other - while simultaneously dis-incentivizing you to create and maintain live inter-personal relationships (which require more work for less certain “pay-off”).