Porn Addiction

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Let me start as I did last week. There is nothing puritanical about me. And I do my best to stay away from taking a moralistic stance on things. I grew up in a church community that held fundamentalist tendencies. And I’m still working to get over all that.

So when I invite us to consider our relationship to pornography. I am not pushing the idea that it is all bad. I am a sex positive person. And I believe in the power of the erotic.

But the fact is that thanks to the internet, the culture is facing an absolutely unprecedented increase in addiction to pornography. It is changing our neurology. It is increasingly normal for young men to suffer from erectile dysfunction. Men in their sexual prime are losing the ability to reach sexual arousal with a real person.

As our conditioned understanding of masculinity comes into question. And many of us become afraid of our own sexual expression. It becomes easier and easier to run away into a digital sexuality where nothing is really at stake. Except perhaps the well being of the often exploited people in the videos and the images that we are using.

Porn addiction is a real thing. It runs deep into our psyches. And it is spread wide across the culture.

What is your relationship to pornography? Is it keeping you from the magic and medicine of a healthy sexuality? How is it impacting your intimate relationships? Do you think you need help? Are you too ashamed to seek it?

Is there a link between porn addiction and toxic masculinity?

Here are a couple of resources that you might want to check out and share:

It will be good to talk about this during one of our calls.

Appreciating you, your effort and your work to become better men.