Straight Talk to Husbands Who Watch Porn. Shelli remembers well the day her husband John called her up to confess his secret obsession with pornography. Years of guilt, shame, and wasted time had finally taken its toll on John, and the emotional dam broke. He knew he needed to tell his wife the truth. It took me by complete surprise, she says, I didnt have any clue that it was even an issue. But after the shock came the hurt. There was definitely a death of all that I thought was real, Shelli says. Everything that we had had prior to that felt artificialthat I was believing a lie, that I didnt know him, and I didnt know who he really was, and the way he felt about me was a big lie. John and Shelli Mandeville share part of their story on the documentary Somebodys Daughter A Journey to Freedom from Pornography. Sadly, John and Shellis story of a marriage nearly destroyed by pornography and addiction is all too common. In 2. 00. 2, at a meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the divorce attorneys present said over half 5. Do wives need to lighten upFull List of Inventory 12717. You can search for a specific title by using your computer or other devices search function. If you want a specific list such as. In a presentation given at the Witherspoon Institute, Dr. Jill Manning spoke about the impact pornography can have on wives. It has been troubling and intriguing to me, reports Dr. Manning, how many times I encounter derogatory beliefs about this group of women, beliefs that dismiss the magnitude of the issue and the legitimacy of it, by framing them as pathological, overreacting, and frigid women who need to lighten up. After all, hes just lookingSome women, in fact, have lightened up. Not all wives react negatively to their husbands using pornography. Ana Bridges from University of Arkansas psychology department says in her own research she has met many women who have justified their husbands behavior. Free Downloads Dimanche. All guys look at porn. Its better than him having an affair. At least hes not always coming to me to get his needs met. Bridges labels these rationalizations as permission giving beliefs things we tell ourselves that make certain behaviors seem normal or healthy. Ironically, it is pornography that often teaches and reinforces these beliefs in the first place. If we receive a steady diet of media that portrays illicit sex as the norm, it is easy to get the impression that boys will be boys. How a woman reacts to her husband using pornography is based in part on what she believes healthy sexuality and relationships should look like in the first place. So, what if, just for a minute, we asked ourselves how our relationships could look if we didnt live in a pornified culture. What if, for a brief moment, men turned their eyes away from the fantasy imagesthe airbrushed photos, the clever video editing, the breast enhancements, and the thumbnail images that portray women like dogs in heatand instead focused on what pornography is really costing them and their wives Before we quickly label distressed wives as overly conservative prudes, what if we peeled back the layers and instead saw women who were mourning the loss of something they should rightly expect from their husbands intimacy. Who says porn is bad for marriages John and Shelli certainly understood what porn was costing them. Accept an impossible appetite and an impossible standard, and it steals from the true beauty of what marriage is supposed to be, John says. Its the perfect theft of growing old together. Who wants to grow old together in a culture where all we honor is whats youngConsider how the research bears this out. 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I squeeze gats till my clips is empty. A review of The Force Awakens and much much more Special thanks toclips and references Tim Higgins as JJ Abrams. Shelli remembers well the day her husband John called her up to confess his secret obsession with pornography. Years of guilt, shame, and wasted time had finally. Pornography trains men to be consumers, to treat sex as a commodity, to think about sex as something on tap and made to order. As Dr. Mary Anne Layden writes, It is toxic miseducation about sex and relationships. In Dr. Gary Brooks book, The Centerfold Syndrome, he explains how pornography alters the way men think. Because the women in porn are only glossy magazine pictures or pixels on the screen, they have no sexual or relational expectations of their own. This trains men to desire the cheap thrill of fantasy over a committed relationship that requires them to connect to another human being. Pornography essentially trains men to be digital voyeurs looking at women rather than seeking genuine intimacy. According to a study published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, after only a few prolonged exposures to pornographic videos, men and women alike reported less sexual satisfaction with their intimate partners, including their partners affection, physical appearance, and sexual performance. Another study that appeared in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy found similar results. When men and women were exposed to pictures of female centerfold models from Playboy and Penthouse, this significantly lowered their judgments about the attractiveness of average people. Dr. Victor Clines research has shown that sexual arousal and excitement diminish with repeated exposure to sexual scenes, leading people to seek out greater variety and novelty in the pornography they view. French neuroscientist Serge Stoleru reports on how overexposure to erotic stimuli actually exhausts the sexual responses of healthy young men. Dr. Dolf Zillmann reports when young people are repeatedly exposed to pornography, it can have a long lasting impact on their beliefs and behaviors. Frequently, men who habitually view pornography develop cynical attitudes about love and the need for affection between partners. They begin to view the institution of marriage as sexually confining. Often, men develop a tolerance for sexually explicit material, leading them to seek out more novel or bizarre material to achieve the same level of arousal. Dr. Judith Reisman summarizes it well Pornography causes impotencean inability to function with your own sexual power. If he cant make love to his beloved, says Reisman, If he has to imagine a picture, if he has to imagine a scene, in order to actually reach the heights of completion with this person, then hes no longer with his own power, is he He has been stripped. He has been hijacked. He has been emasculated. He has, in effect, been castrated visually. We might say the real problem with pornography isnt that it shows us too much sex, but that it cant show us enough about what real sex is. Porn treats sex one dimensionally, packages it in pixels and rips it from its relational context. It titillates with images of sex but cannot offer the experience of real intimacy. Am I not enough for himIts not because youre not enough, not beautiful, and that he doesnt find you attractive, Shelli Mandeville says. Its so important that women get that. Easier said than done. One has only to glance through online forums and blogs on this topic many women feel his porn use is somehow their fault. They feel they have failed their partners sexually. They feel if they were only more attractive or more available he wouldnt rush to the porn to get his fix. Researchers have found that wives and girlfriends often feel a loss of self esteem in these situations. However, comparing marital intimacy to pornography is like comparing apples to oranges. The type of pornography thats available now was never available in human history, says Dr. William Struthers, author Wired for Intimacy How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain. If you can get on a 5. HD television a picture of a woman engaging in a sexual act, the brains not wired to expect that kind of thing, because there arent women who have 5. HD TV bodies out there. Even the tabloids show us that the so called picture perfect women cant possibly compete with fantasy. Why would Tiger Woods cheat on his swimsuit model wife Elin Nordegren Why would Peter Cook spend 3,0.