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Define Pornography

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If you ask a thousand people to define pornography, you'll get a thousand different answers. It is the only treated "illness" that has no specific definition of the problem or recovery. Mark Kim Malan, Ph.D. addressed this significant problem in A New Taxonomy: Scientific Misuse of the Term "Pornography" , the following is extracts from his paper. .................. Define pornography. The purpose of creating such a taxonomy is to create a more specific and organized terminology for scientific research and discussion. OBJECTIVES This paper has three major objectives. 1. To remedy definition variability and outcome bias in scientific studies, including those using the term "pornography", through the proposal of a new approach to sexual scientific measures that utilizes a new and unique global taxonomy of objects and subjective human sexual responses to an object. 2. To acknowledge that the term "pornography" has been variously d
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What is your Diagnosis

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No on NoFap

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‘I want that power back’: Discourses of masculinity within an online pornography abstinence  Abstract This article examines the ways that men actively construct masculinity within an online pornography-abstinence reddit forum, NoFap. Of central interest is how members of NoFap negotiate possible contradictions between abstinence and presenting themselves as masculine subjects. Utilizing discourse analysis, we illustrate the ways in which forum members employ idealized discourses of innate masculinity and the need for ‘real sex’ to justify their resistance to pornography use and masturbation. However, we also highlight the paradox of having to perform ostensibly innate characteristics, and the outright rejection of feminist critiques of pornography use as it pertains to masculine conduct. As such, this article offers an alternative approach to the popular ‘user effects’ paradigm that suggests that users reject pornography because of internal biological drives interfering in their l
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Share Your Story

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Have you been labeled as a sex or porn "addict"? Have you experienced a "recovery program" like Sexaholics Anonymous, ARP/PASG, Gary Wilson's Your Brain on Porn (YBOP), Sons of Helaman, Like Dragons Did They Fight Maurice Harker, Life Changing Services, Fight the New Drug, NoFap, Healing Through Christ, Healing with Worth, Breaking the Chains seminar by Maurice Harker, Daughters of Light, He Restoreth My Soul by Donald L. Hilton Jr, or any other program designed to treat a sexually related behavior?  Please share your story with others.  Share on this blog by submitting your story here - https://goo.gl/forms/c7piBEeOvbFhUXsn1 Follow others experiences here and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/154597388582092/ Treatment Doesn't Work Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment Research Like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), treatment professionals claim success in the face of contradicting evidence. AA groupers boast, "Rarely have we
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