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PORN: MEN AREN'T THE ONLY CULPRITS
It is common knowledge that men historically have had issues with porn, but women have been actively gaining a role in porn addiction. Women who are addicted to porn state that they feel a sense of numbness and that they are cut off from the world. In 2006, six in ten women watch porn and use it as a form of distraction from the real world. Many women choose to not discuss their addiction since pornography is considered a man's field, which leads to more guilt and shame among women who enjoy pornography.
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HOW PORNOGRAPHY AFFECTS MEN AND WOMEN
What does pornography do for both sexes? Pornography offers a distraction for individuals from what is really going on in life, leading to them neglecting work, school, and families. Side affects of porn addiction are "become controlling, highly introverted, have high anxiety, narcissistic, curious, have low self-esteem, depressed, dissociative, distractible". Pornography leads to association, once you associate sexual intimacy with a pornographic image, it is hard to erase that connection. This leads to masturbation, which many individuals enjoy because they do not have to reciprocate those feelings for another individual. Once individuals make the connection that the feelings of intimacy are with images, this leads to the lack of romanticism to be given towards partners. Both men and women who watch pornography say they are less inclined to have daughters.
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SOME FACTS
- According to a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Research, about half (49 percent) of young adult women agree that viewing pornography is an acceptable way of expressing one’s sexuality.
- Exposures to porn during childhood are not just brief glimpses. Some teen girls are viewing online pornography for a half-hour or more at a time, and 1 in 7 have done this on multiple occasions.
- Of the women in the Dirty Girls community, 87 percent say they feel or have felt “out of control” when it comes to the matter of masturbation; 70 percent say the same about sexual fantasies, according to Dirty Girls Ministries.
- Of the women in the Dirty Girls community, 45 percent said they started “habitually and compulsively” watching pornography or engaging in cybersex when they were 13-17 years old.
- Of the women in the Dirty Girls community, 27 percent say they feel or have felt “out of control” when it comes to sexually chatting online; 11 percent say the same thing about sexting.
Statistics taken from: http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/watchman-on-the-wall/41611-pornography-addiction-a-growing-problem-among-women