In my book, The New Age of Sex Education: How to Talk to your Teen about Cybersex and Pornography in the Digital Age, I write about the baggage that can interfere with a parent talking to their child about sex, pornography, masturbation or any other sexual topic. This topic recently came up in one of […]
Last week McDonald’s announced that it will add internet filters to its WiFi in restaurants throughout the country. My first thought was, “now what about Starbucks?” as this news came literally the day after a client disclosed that he had downloaded pornography at a Starbucks. What I didn’t know is that Starbucks also has committed […]
On Tuesday another one of my clients was sentenced in Federal Court on Possession of Child Pornography charges. That evening, the group talked about how to prevent people from possessing child pornography. A Federal judge is mandated to look at four factors (according to US Code 3553) when imposing a sentence upon a defendant. Any […]
Where has this book been all my clinical life? Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bi?: A Guide for women concerned about their men is a book written by Joe Kort with Alexander Morgan published in 2014. To say that this is a much needed book in the sex addiction field is an understatement. One […]
Part of me wishes to say “YES” and have that be the end of this post. However, given the prevailing stigma against sex addiction therapists, I feel that this needs much more explanation. A recent Psychology Today blog post by a clinician I respect has the sex addiction treatment community all abuzz. This blog post […]
I was working with a client this week on identifying the reasons he struggles with intimacy with his wife. As we were working through the problem, he identified a number of reasons. We both had a realization at the same time. We have done work on all of the reasons on the list but one, […]
Generally speaking, Mindfulness is the intentional acceptance and non-judgmental focus of one’s attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment. Mindfulness interventions have been on the rise in the addiction treatment community and with good reason. It seems like each month there are more scientific studies published that support the practice […]
Gary Wilson, the curator of the widely visited site, www.yourbrainonporn.com, recently released a book of the same name. Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction. The book is available on Kindle or as a .pdf file. The value of Your Brain on Porn I have used videos from the yourbrainonporn.com […]
Sex addiction now seems to be tossed around rather lightly. Behaviors, such as BDSM fetishes are often labeled incorrectly.
Updates from IITAP Working with Betrayal in Couples Every year a portion of the 1800 Certified Sex Addiction Therapists gather outside Phoenix, Arizona for the annual conference. This February was the 9th annual conference. Though I have been a CSAT since 2009, this was my first trip to the conference. As such, I thought I […]
