Patrick J. Hart Psy.D.
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Pornography:  Sex and Love Addiction in Seattle
Sexual addiction has been described as an "intimacy disorder" that is characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and high risk sexual behaviors. Like all behaviors that are said to become "addictions," such compulsive behavior has negative (unwanted) impacts on the person that is acting out sexually, as well as other people.

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If sexual behaviors are to be considered "addictive" it must follow that negative consequences escalate as the disorder progresses. Over time, the individual usually has to intensify the destructive (negative consequences) sexual behavior to achieve the same results.

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For some sex people, sexually acting-out behaviors do not progress beyond compulsive masturbation or the extensive use of pornography or phone or computer sex services. For others, such maladaptive sexual activities can take on addictive proportions that involve illegal activities such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, obscene phone calls, child molestation or rape.

Sex,"Love" and Porn Addiction: A Leading Complaint in Divorce Proceedings

Divorce-Online recently conducted a study and discovered that Facebook, Twitter and similar social networking systems were named in one out of five American divorce petitions last year. The research revealed the a common divorce complaint involves problems of sexual betrayal by means of sex chat rooms and problems with pornography addiction.  In many divorce proceedings, spouses complain that their partners are conducting inappropriate sexual chats with Facebook or other chat room cyber sex partners. The study, researched 5,000 divorce papers, and also revealed that MySpace, Twitter, and Bebo also contributed to marital dissatisfaction, conflict and ultimate deterioration of marriages that ended in divorce.

"I had heard from my staff that there were a lot of people saying they had found out things about their partners on Facebook so I decided to see how prevalent it was," Mark Kennan told The Sun. "I was really surprised to see 20-percent of all the petitions containing references to Facebook."

Kennan, who conducted the study, said that the inappropriate sexual chats were the most common reason for divorce. He also added that, after scanning the Divorce-Online database for the word "Facebook," he discovered 989 instances of the word in 5,000 petitions.

This research also reports that divorce lawyers openly admit to searching through Facebook and other social networking sites in order to dig up dirt on the "errant" spouse for evidence of sex addiction and internet pornography consumption.

 

Help Links: Pornography Addiction, Sex and Love Addict . . .

Psych Central: Porn, Sex and Love Addiction

An Introduction to the Nature of Sex Addiction

Root Causes of Sexual Addiction: Biochemistry or History

NSHS Report: Pornographic Web Pages Top 260 Million

Seattle Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Meetings

Am I a Porn Addict: How Do I Know if I am Addicted to Pornography?

Porn Addiction Info: Odds are Someone you know is a Pornography Addict

Keys to Recovery: Breaking Pornography Addiction in Seattle

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