Addiction: Where it comes from and how it can be treated.
Esteem Therapy Yorkshire is a specialist sex and porn addiction counselling service in West Yorkshire and the majority of our clients are receiving assessment, support and treatment for this. Sex and porn addiction can include excessively indulging in one or a combination of some of the following: Porn – on/off-line images and film On-line dating […]
About Porn Addiction
6% of children aged 15 years or younger had accessed an adult website 5% of visitors to such sites had been under-18 One website alone had been visited by 112,000 boys in the UK aged between 12 and 17-years-old Of the wider population, 23% of those who had used the net over the month had […]
Porn Revenge. The Dangers of Texting and Other Social Media.
Don’t put yourself in this position where you risk your career, relationships, friendships and economic well-being. Your whole future might be at stake – so much so that these behaviours are too risky to even go near – unless you, like the unfortunate individuals below, experience uncontrollable compulsions and addictive tendencies. Recent news stories caught […]
The Effect of Porn and Sex Addiction on Relationships
The Effect of Porn and Sex Addiction on Relationships A high number of clients seek help for their compulsive porn and sex-related behaviours because their relationship with their partner is put at risk. Until their partners say that they are unhappy or worse, ready to leave, because of the behaviours, many addicts do not even […]
Impact of discovering a partner is a porn and sex addict.
When partners discover their significant other is possibly a sex addict or porn addict an explosion happens. Like uncovering an affair they are likely to feel very angry, shocked, numbed and confused. These feelings will often be overwhelming and the aggrieved partner will be left swinging from one intense emotion to another. It is common, natural […]
Dangers of On-line Sex Dating Can Be Catastrophic
The harmful consequences of sexual addictions are numerous and serious; marriage break-up, loss of jobs and income, financial costs, mental health and well-being are common consequences that inevitably occur when addicts can’t cover their tracks, escalate out of control or just get discovered by chance. Now the frequent use of on-line channels to seek out […]
Pointers for Partners (of sex and porn addicts)
Many partners contact me for help and information about how to deal with their partner’s compulsive sexual behaviours. If this is your situation you might find the following reflections from my dealings with partners helpful. How Esteem Therapy can help partners – I can offer partners counselling support during a difficult time of discovery, disclosure or […]
Is Porn Use Normal?
Perhaps the answer to this depends on your moral standpoint or what your values are. Or maybe porn use is a generation-sensitive activity ie the internet makes it more ‘normal’. Whatever your personal response to this question is, the fact remains that there are some aspects of porn use that we can be absolutely certain […]
The Dangers of On-line Dating and Sex
I am probably telling you something you already know and I also recognise that the nature of addictive and compulsive behaviours means that this knowledge will be conveniently discarded (or distorted) to permit ‘acting out’. But it has to be said anyway – not everyone sees the news every day and miss the messages out […]
When did you get your porn bug?
You (or your partner) may be part of the on-line porn generation – that is you grew up as internet porn also exploded into the cyber world and took hold. If that is the case you have found your way to this page probably because you (or your partner) also grew up using internet porn and […]