The Stages of Pornography Addiction

First of all, I will explain the difference between sex addiction and porn addiction as the 2 are very different. Dr Patrick Carnes was the first person to coin the phrase "sex addict" in his 1983 book "Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction". Then in the first landmark study of sex addicts and their families in the 1980s (summarised in Carne's 1991 book "Don't Call it Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction" documenting his work with 1000 sex addicts) Dr Carnes found that those who were neglected, abused, molested or raped as children or who were otherwise exposed...

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