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How Does Pornography Negatively Affect Children? These are a few of the effects referenced and cited in the paper: Pornography exposure at these young ages often results in symptoms of anxiety and depression. Children also report feelings of disgust, shock, embarrassment...

I don’t think anyone wants to put their marriage in jeopardy. In fact, we’ve heard from several readers that the only reason they “allow” porn in their marriage is to try to save or enhance it. They don’t want to push their husband away by putting “unrealistic expectation...

Pornography excites the brain, in part, because it gives us license to have unabashed sex. Like art, it's a personal taste: For some, porn is exhilarating and enjoyable with a partner, but for others, it embodies exploitation of the vulnerable. It's even difficult to dete...

Imagine a drug so powerful it can destroy a family simply by distorting a man's perception of his wife. Picture an addiction so lethal it has the potential to render an entire generation incapable of forming lasting marriages and so widespread that it produces more annual...

When one struggles with pornography, triggers are everywhere, especially in the hypersexualized media all around us. It often takes just a simple image to set off the chemical reaction in the brain, which first develops by looking at pornography. Sadly, simply turning o...

The need for strong passion and emotion in our yiddishkeit is a topic that has been heavily discussed in recent years, including at various forums at the Agudah convention. However, at the special “Sleepwalking Along the Derech” session, despite the alarm and awareness, a...

Of the different approaches in dealing with the dangers of technology, the Stoliner Rebbe is known to have an engaging approach. Seeing it as a reality of life, the Rebbe puts a focus on confronting it rather than avoiding it. On Motzei Shabbos Parshas Chayei Sarah, Rav...

An email received by GYE from Rabbi Y.W: Dear GYE, My partner and I are directors of a local kiruv organization that realizes that nowadays many in the frum community need a tremendous amount of kiruv and chizuk as well. I am aware of the enormous help GYE provides, and t...

I am not an addict, nor an addict in recovery. My parents are not addicts. No one in my family or any of my friends are addicts or have died of an overdose – accidental or intentional. I grew up sheltered in a conservative community. A religious community. A community o...

Ever suspect that social media was doing more harm than good, at least to social relations? If you did, now there's a new study that seems to confirm those beliefs. According to a new survey of 2,000 married Britons, conducted by U.K. law firm Slater and Gordon, social ...

The following link will take you to a YouTube video. Please exercise discretion. https://t.co/zRhvJmyZpz — The Porn Effect (@ThePornEffect) July 31, 2016

Married and love to watch some steamy porn together? Be warned, as frequent pornography use can sound the death knell for your happy marriage. According to the researchers, pornography is associated with a substantial increase in the probability of divorce for married p...

Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act which involves force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person involved has not attained 18 years of age. The specific forms of exp...

What does it take for something to be considered a public health crisis? This question hit the national stage when the Republican National Committee declared pornography a public health crisis in its draft platform, which will be formally voted on next week at the Rep...

Anyone who avidly follows contemporary popular culture and cultural trends in general is probably well aware that the pornography (adult entertainment) industry is an entity that generates billions of dollars of revenue in the United States annually. What is more notable...

One of the tools used in sex offender treatment (SOT) is called "victim sensitization," i.e. teaching sex offenders (not addicts, mind you, but actual predators, who not only get triggered but actually violate vulnerable others, including children) about the human side o...

Rabbi Dovid Heber of Baltimore, who has been a member of GYE's Rabbinical Board since 2010, gave permission that this letter be shared, including with the GYE community. Rabbi Heber wrote the letter 20 years ago, when Internet use was in its infancy. In the letter,...

Viewing pornography is a very delusional act. You are pretending to be loved and wanted when you're alone in a room.