Looking at porn while in a relationship is being unfaithful to your partner. Senate, in which she found that 56% of divorces involved one spouse “having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites.” And a 2016 study found that porn use within a two-year relationship period doubled men’s likelihood of divorce (from 5% to 10%) and tripled women’s (from 6% to 18%). Jill Manning, a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in sexual addiction and pornography, presented her research on porn and divorce to the U.S. The APA states, “Destin Stewart, Ph.D., and Dawn Szymanski, Ph.D., at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, surveyed female college students and found that those who perceived their boyfriends' porn use to be problematic experienced lower self-esteem, poorer relationship quality, and lower sexual satisfaction.” The statistics don’t stop at the amount of porn that’s being consumed. Porn and Relationshipsĭon’t let social pressure fool you into thinking that porn doesn’t affect your personal relationships. This article is a message to the girls about the men, but it can certainly go the other way, as it’s true that many women also engage in porn. According to the American Psychological Association, several international studies state that porn consumption rates are at 50% to 99% among men and 30% to 86% among women. About 35% of all downloads on the internet are related to porn.
You can access it via the internet, social media, magazines, movies, and books. The Statistics Don’t Lieĭid you know that the porn industry profits around $5 billion a year? It’s everywhere. So many people will read this article and call me a prude, but porn has ruined my past relationships, and I wasn’t going to let it come into my marriage.
Porn destroys relationships, and it destroys marriages. A natural inclination doesn’t automatically indicate inherent goodness. Men are visual by nature, so it’s only natural for them to be attracted to sexualized things, but this isn’t a free pass for porn addiction.
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