11/19/2009
Sexual Recovery Institute Founder Debunks Porn Addiction Myths within Orthodox Jewish Community
The leading recovery center for sexual addiction and unhealthy compulsive behaviors in the United States, Sexual Recovery Institute, has announced that Founder Robert Weiss was speaking at the upcoming “Sin or Sickness: Internet Porn and Gambling in the Orthodox Community” workshop.
Presented by the Aleinu Family Resource Center and the Rabbinical Council of California, the process addiction-focused workshop was held at the Simon Wiesenthal Center from on November 18, 2009.
Weiss, who recently contributed to “Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals,” will be co-presenting with gambling addiction expert Dr. Timothy W. Fong.
“What many people fail to understand is that strict religious environments, where sexuality is scrutinized and often demonized, can actually trigger certain undesirable sexual behaviors,” remarked Weiss. “As someone who has had extensive experience in dealing with various sexual related addictions, I hope to shed some light on this type of behavior as well as available and proven treatment and recovery methods.”
"Pornography addiction has its roots in the viewing and hording of magazine and video pornography"..."Similar to someone with a chemical or substance addiction, porn addicts tend to replace important relationships and commitments with Internet sex or other forms of porn" notes in its website.
Some signs of porn addiction can include:
- An inability to stop the behavior (s) and porn use despite previous attempts to do so
- Anger or irritablity if asked to stop
- Hiding or attempting to keep secret all or a part of the porn use
- Continuing the behavior despite obvious consequences – like a relationship or job loss
- Getting lost in the problem porn use - i.e. Spending more time than intended, losing time
Porn addiction help tips
Below are listed a few tips for dealing with porn addiction:
- Getting blocking software for the computer
- Putting up inspirational pictures around the computer (kids, people you love etc.)
- Moving the computer to a public space in the home – not in a den or bedroom
- Having an addiction prevention plan – to carry out when tempted
- Knowing the signs of porn addiction – both the general signs and those specific to you
- Knowing the stages of porn addiction
- Making good use of porn addiction resources like 12-step meetings, sex addiction professionals and online recovery support groups
- A commitment to breaking pornography addition has to be renewed one-day-at-a-time, it can be a set-up for the addict to think of it as forever!
More information: Sexual Recovery Web Site
Etiquetas: Adiction, Pornography, Sexual
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