Category Archives: Addicts

Monday, July 13th, 2020

Sexualized Drug Use Can Hijack Sexual Desire, Part 1 of 2

People who pair drug use with sexual behavior typically discover, usually in relatively short order, that the super-stimulating effects of this combination can hijack their sexual desire – distorting...
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Monday, July 6th, 2020

Protective (Filtering and Accountability) Software for Recovering Sex and Porn Addicts

Each year, Dr. Rob Weiss, Seeking Integrity’s Chief Clinical Officer, and Scott Brassart, Seeking Integrity’s Director of Content Development, look at “parental control” software products to determine which offerings...
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Monday, June 29th, 2020

The Great Porn Debate

Scott Brassart Several months ago, Dr. Rob Weiss was invited to speak about sex and porn addiction at an Australian public health conference. When he got there, he unwittingly...
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020

Does Using Porn Count as Infidelity?

In today’s increasingly digital world, the line between sexual fidelity and cheating has blurred. One of the most common fuzzy areas is pornography. This uncertainty can create a significant...
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Monday, June 15th, 2020

Porn Users: Casual vs. At-Risk vs. Addicted/Compulsive

Not every person who uses pornography struggles. For an analogy, consider alcohol. Almost every person, by the time they reach adulthood, has experimented with alcohol. And the vast majority...
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Monday, June 8th, 2020

Can a Behavior (Like Sex or Porn) Really Be an Addiction?

When people hear the word addiction, their typical first thoughts involve alcohol and drugs. Many people are surprised to learn that behaviors can also be addictive. Even those who...
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Monday, June 1st, 2020

Porn Addiction and Escalation

Scott Brassart Does the Stuff that Turns You On Turn You Off? Sex and porn addicts uniformly report that escalation is a part of their addiction. Over time, they...
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Monday, May 25th, 2020

Sex Addiction: Recognizing and Dealing with Internalized Homophobia

With many gay and bisexual sex addicts, negative core cognitions are an integral component of the addictive process, helping to support a shame-based sense of self. These non-affirming views...
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Monday, May 18th, 2020

Sexual Orientation is Not a Factor When Diagnosing Sex Addiction

Being gay or bisexual does not make you a sex addict any more than being straight makes you a sex addict. Sexual addiction and sexual orientation are completely unrelated....
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