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WHAT IS PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION COUNSELLING
Pornography addiction counselling at ASAA encompasses permanently breaking the compulsive/addictive need to watching pornography, and developing a healthy balance of sexual fantasy/desire, libido/sex drive, self esteem, and responsible sexual behaviour. In a consulting session, your sex therapist and pornography addiction specialist will explore the root causes of your pornography addiction and provide education, relapse prevention and coping skills, self management strategies, assign home work tasks, offer the support you need to successfully break the cycle of your pornography addiction, and listen to you with the upmost respect. A sex therapist is a specifically trained professional counsellor who is qualified to understand, treat, and manage sexual behaviours and sexual concerns.
WHAT IS PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION VERSUS CASUAL PORNOGRAPHY WATCHING
Frequent online pornography streaming has overwhelmingly influenced consumers to believe that pornography is a normal part of a good sex live. However, pornography is controversial and conflicting for may viewers.
- An unacceptable high number of pornography consumers have addicted to pornography worldwide, and now require professional services from sex addiction specialists.
Pornography addiction is different from casual pornography use. The term ‘Pornography Addiction’ refers to a state of problematic emotional dependence on pornography as a mechanism to cope with (underlying) complex emotions, and unresolved trauma.
- Pornography addiction is characterised by inability to permanently limit, or stop, the pornographic behaviour despite apparent damaging consequences to personal, marital, and professional life.
Pornography addiction may develop with frequent consumption of large amounts of sexualising, and pleasure enhancing, imagery. This behaviour may cause a pattern of elevated releases of ‘feel good’ chemicals in the brain, such as dopamine, adrenaline, and serotonin, affecting emotions and reinforcing brain memory of pleasure, and wanting more (pornography).
WHY DO WE CONSUME SO MUCH PORNOGRAPHY
From the age of adolescence, humans are naturally curious about sex. Human sexual fantasy is a normal condition, and Internet pornography has just heightened it’s visibility.
Consumers can be misled to believe that pornographers accurately depict human sexual behaviour. In fact, frequent pornography use has a negative effect on sexual perception, and may contribute to a development of sexual dysfunction.
WHAT ARE CONSEQUENCES AND MOST COMMON SYMPTOMS OF UNTREATED PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION
- Destruction. Pornography addiction progressively erodes sexual intimacy and personal values
- Shame. Hiding pornografic behaviour due to shame, guilt, low self esteem and inability to stop the behaviour despite being fully aware of the damaging consequences the behaviour is causing
- Pain. Using pornography as an emotional escape when feeling low, bored, anxious, depressed, stressed, agitated, rejected, angry, worried, overwhelmed, fatigued, or overcome with painful memories
- Mood. Experiencing angry mood swings when pornography is denied (Sexual Rage Disorder, SRD)
- Escalation. Becoming sexually demanding in the bedroom for personal gain
- Consent. Poor attitude towards sexual health and sexual consent
- Thought processing. Pornography addiction interferes with thought processing and good decision making
- Losses. Pornography overconsumption may lead to low physical energy, loss of time, loss of motivation, productivity, finances, or job loss
- Health. Disrupted sleep patterns, agitation, tiredness, poor concentration, anxiety, depression
- Sexual Health. Changes in sexual attraction, sexual desire, libido, sexual arousal
- Pornography Induced Erectile Dysfunction (PIED) affecting erections, orgasm, ejaculation
- Break down. Relationship upheaval or divorce. Family break down
- Sexual violence
- Legal. Legal prosecution in relation to pornography/sexual behaviour
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- Sex Addiction Australia can help you with breaking your cycle of pornography addiction for good
Our highly trained professional counsellor and clinical sex therapist has well over 25 years of experience in successfully treating pornography addicts. ASAA’s expertise is in understanding human sexuality and compulsive sexual behaviour. Our counselling encompasses the most successful modalities in treating, and overcoming, pornography addiction. We offer Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Psychotherapies, Trauma Counselling, Betrayal Trauma Counselling, Clinical Sex Therapy, Sexual Health Counselling, and Relationship/Marriage Counselling. Being mindful of our clients therapeutic needs, we take a sensitive and person tailored approach to treatment to suite individual circumstances.
Contact Sex Addiction Australia and learn how to quit your pornography addiction and improve your life, and your relationships.
PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION CAN DEVELOP WITHOUT WARNING
Pornography addiction can develop fast. Characteristics include
- Escalations of pornographic cravings
- Growing tolerance and compulsions to consume more porn to achieve satisfaction
- And, in some cases, enacting porn motivated sex with online, or real life, partners
For some addicts, compulsive pornography habits may stand in the way to form a meaningful relationship with a partner in the first place.
HISTORICAL PORNOGRAPHY
Pornography has been a part of human sexual curiosity since the dawn of time. Archeologists have found pornographic artefacts of early humans dating back thousands of years. Discoveries of ancient civilizations give testimony to elaborate sexual sculptures, pornographic mosaics, drawings and paintings. Pornography was favourably illustrated as symbols of pleasure, joy, and fertility.
PORNOGRAPHY TODAY
Although, sexual curiosity is a natural phenomena and sexual expression through pornographic art has always been an evolutional part of human sexuality, today’s endless streaming of sexualised imagery and pornography have caused a harmful overload.
- Many people in western culture have accepted pornography as a normal part of their sex lives and do not see their behaviour as addiction.
In our 21st century, with an estimated global average of 30.000 pornographic internet searches per second and an estimated 1 in 5 mobile phone searches for porn sites, pornography has developed into a ‘tsunami’, and has taken a harmful turn on human sexuality and mental health.
The popular website PornHub alone has received over 35 billion visits in a one year period alone! PornHub data reveal a staggering traffic increase of 18.5% during the pandemic. Reportedly, Australia ranks at 8th position of an overall pornography consumption in the world.
IMPACT OF PORNOGRAPHY ON SEXUAL HEALTH AND SEXUAL FUNCTION
Acquired complications to psychosexual health and sexual function exposes pornography addicts at risk to sexual numbing.
- An alarming number of male pornography consumers, including young and physically healthy men in their 20th, 30th, and 40th report changes in their libido, partial impotence, delayed ejaculation (DE), and difficulties with obtaining or maintaining erections firm enough to achieve penetration, or completing sexual intercourse with a partner.
This condition is known as Pornography Induced Erectile Dysfunction, or PIED.
IS PORNOGRAPHY THREATENING OUR SOCIETY?
Researchers explain the brain is capable of plasticity and acquiring new tastes of sexual desires. The overwhelming volume and easy access to soft and hard core Internet pornography carries an inherit danger to ‘trick’ the brain into ‘needing’ more sex, and craving more porn. Unfortunately, even children are increasingly reported to accessing adult pornography. Premature sexualisation in under-aged teens, or even younger children, is raising alarming concerns to long term outcomes of their sexual, social, and mental health development.
WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS FROM PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION
- Withdrawal symptoms can be mild to severe, and may be experienced for several weeks or longer, and can include;
- Constantly returning porn cravings and compulsive sexual thoughts that are difficult, or impossible, to control
- Dysphoria, dissatisfaction, anxiety, or depression
- Interrupted sleep patterns, agitation, frustration, concentration difficulties
- General feelings of malaise
- Feeling bloated, heavy, sluggish, low energised
- Changes in appetite
- Changes in moods
- Lack of motivation, ‘cannot switch on’
- Meaninglessness
- Anger and Sexual Rage Disorder (SRD)
- Researchers warn that overconsumption of pornography may cause pornography induced erectile dysfunction (PIED) in men. (Research 2014 Max Plank Institute, Germany).
- Withdrawing from pornography addiction may reinstate normal sexual function over time
WHY CAN’T I STOP MYSELF
Individuals, who have addicted to pornography and/or sex, are believed to have undergone brain changes. On August 15 th 2011, the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) has publicly issued a statement that ‘addiction is a primary chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry’.
Sex Addiction Australia says ‘This statement expresses a clear change from previous concepts of classifying addictive behaviour as an immoral choice behaviour, which has contributed to stigmatisation, rather than offering much needed rehabilitation. The ASAM research study highlights addiction as a disorder of the brain requiring clinical treatment to achieve full recovery.”
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