Helping Women Addicted to PornWomen addicted to porn and women struggling from other sexual addictions can change their self-destructive behaviors through a process of redirection and positive action. If you are struggling from porn addiction, or some other sexual addiction, you can join the ranks of those who have changed their lives and moved on to happier and healthier living. Internet Porn Statistics (TopTenReviews.com) reveal the type and extent of pornography problems involving women. Women make up one third of those with a sex addiction. A typical profile is a woman seeking companionship and understanding. This explains why women are much more likely to act out in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs. Women addicted to porn are involved in sex and pornography in ways that are typically different than men. For example, twice as many women over men favor sexually-oriented chat rooms. In contrast, men are six times more likely to be involved in sexual behaviors like masturbation and pornography. Other disturbing statistics include the following:
How addiction beginsFor some women, addiction begins with innocently stumbling upon internet pornography. Curiosity leads to more and more exposure. Sexual pleasure begins to entrap her. Eventually, she’s hooked. And, like a vacuum cleaner, her porn addiction sucks time and energy from her life.Some women addicted to porn get started because they’re looking for companionship and understanding. They eventually view sex as a way to find it. Looking for companionship, they enter chat rooms searching for someone to talk to. One chat room leads to another. Then another. The topics change, get more personal, and finally become sexual in nature. Ultimately, through sexual encounter, her life becomes entrapped into sexually-addictive behaviors. Pornographic pictures and stories, and the sexual pleasure derived from them, become an escape from reality. They bring temporary relief. The emotional hangover afterwards, however, is bitter and empty. Understanding the addictionSex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) describes an addiction this way: “The essence of all addiction is the addicts' experience of powerlessness over a compulsive behavior, resulting in their lives becoming unmanageable.”Modern research is discovering the brain science of addiction. What happens in the brain when a person repeatedly views pornography? How do those erotic pictures and stories make a person lose control over their lives? When a women reads or views porn, or engages in sexual discussion, the brain releases powerful chemicals that create a real addiction.
To understand how porn addiction happens, and the brain science behind it, click here. Women and addictionThere is a stigma attached to women addicted to porn. Society seems to have a “men will be men” attitude about men addicted to pornography. But for a woman, there appears to be more shame affixed.Some of the shame or disgrace involved may stem from their nurturing natures. In fact, women who suffer from various addictions are often motivated to seek recovery because of their children. Whatever the motivation to begin, each woman’s recovery depends on her ability to replace her existing addiction with new passion for something else. Changing thoughts and behavior centers in understanding and applying the Law of Displacement.
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A PlanThe key for women addicted to porn, the key to enable recovery, is a plan.Here’s a plan that really works, a proven plan that can set you up to win. You or your loved one can be on the road to freedom from porn addiction today. For a host of reasons, many women and men have a very skewed understanding about healthy sexuality. Click here for more information about Healthy Sexuality. As we’ve seen, the repeated viewing of pornography becomes an addiction. Engaging in other sexual behaviors intensifies it. Click here for more information about sexual addiction. Return to Porn Addiction: The Problems with the New International Pastime. Return from Women Addicted to Porn to Home: Overcoming Porn Addiction.
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