NYCSAT Provides Treatment for Porn Addiction in New York City

Internet porn addiction is on the rise due to instantaneous access to millions of nude photos, images, video clips, sex blogs, movies and live sex cams; all from the privacy of your home / work computer or smartphone. If viewing or watching porn interferes or causes problems with work, school, marriage, personal relationships or social relations there is a good chance a problem with porn addiction exists. What is important for you to know overcoming porn addiction is possible if addressed porperly and help is available.

Of course not everyone who watches porn will become addicted to it. However repeated and regular viewing of pornography, does tend to warp a persons ideas about women and sex and creates unrealistic expectations, creating problems in a relationship and marriage. Regular and longterm viewing of pornographic images often erodes intimacy and is experienced by many partners as virtual infidelity.

Can watching a lot of pornography be harmful?

Pornography is not harmful if it is sprinkled here and there into your life. However, if porn is overshadowing all aspects of your life and has become your priority, then you are looking at the harmful effects of porn addiction.

Are you worried your pornography viewving has become compulsive?

Has your partner expressed concern about porn interfering with your relationship or marriage?

You might indeed be struggling with a porn addiction.

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How does Porn Addiction develop?

Early exposure. Most men who get addicted to porn start early, often as teenagers. They get exposed to porn through magazines, movies or internet porn sites when they are very young.
Addiction. The person keeps coming back to porn. It becomes a regular part of his life. He has become hooked and can not quit. At this point, the compulsive viewing of pornography has developed into sex addiction.
Escalation. After a while, escalation begins. The person starts using porn more and more, it becomes a ‘constant companion’. Besied spending more time watching porn you are also searching out and watching more graphic images to get the same high. You might even start viewing porn that previously would have repulsed you, now you find it exciting.
Desensitization. Over time, even very graphic porn doesn’t give you the same rush as it used to, you have become desensitized.
Acting out sexually. Looking for the next high, many men cross a line the swore to themselves they would never cross, they move from paper and internet images of porn to the real world.

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Online porn addiction can have very serious consequences due to the isolation from real human contact and emotional connection. Real-life sex with a loving, trusted partner can be very intimate and very different than sex with an image on a screen. But this takes dedicated work, communication, and commitment. It is always going to be easier to turn on the computer for instant gratification, than struggle with developing an intimate sexual relationship, which in the end is far healthier, more satisfying and nourishing.

Here are some symptoms of porn addiction:

Signs and Symptoms of Porn Addiction

There are numerous other signs and symptoms that often indicate compulsive porn use. The most common are as follows:

Escalation – increasing amounts of time spent on porn and/or increased intensity of the material being viewed (moving from vanilla porn to hardcore, fetish, or violent porn)
Withdrawal – becoming restless, irritable, and discontent when porn is not available
Dishonesty – lying and keeping secrets about porn use (amount of time, content being viewed, etc.)
Disconnection – loss of interest in family, friends, work, and previously enjoyable activities
Sexual Dysfunction – loss of interest in real world partner sex and/or problems with delayed ejaculation (DE), erectile dysfunction (ED), and/or anorgasmia (inability to reach orgasm)

Treatment: At NYCSAT we offer individually tailored sex addiction therapy and counseling, in a confidential, discrete and supportive enviroment to accommodate every patients' unique needs and life circumstances. We help our clients to idenify triggers, focus on risk recognition, and develop a personal treatment plan. We address your feelings of shame and faulty beliefs so you can develop better communication and intimacy with family and friends. In addition, we address the underlying issues of your sex addiction, in order to help you build a solid foundation and insure recovery from porn addiction.

NYCSAT provides help for individuals and couples in and around NYC who are dealing with the harmful effects of porn addiction.

To schedule a confidential consultation in person or by phone email us or call at 212.665.7352