| consequence of being addicted to pornography is the disturbance of the fragile bonds of intimate family and marital relationships," says Dr. Cline. He added "I have had a number of couple-clients where the wife tearfully reported that her husband preferred to masturbate to pornography than to make love to her." Betty Wein, an editor of Morality in Media " shared her experience: "it is not uncommon to receive a distressed phone call from a woman whose marriage has gone sour due to her husband’s porn addiction." She further stated that "we also hear from the addicted men themselves—tortured souls seeking help after the destruction of their marriage and loss of their children." As Dr. Jennings Bryant noted, "if the values which permeate the content of most hardcore pornography are examined have been espoused in the value systems of most civilized cultures.
Forget trust. Forget family…Forget love. Forget marriage. Here, in the world of ultimate physical hedonism, anything goes." This is a real danger to the happiness of family life where a husband, for example, feels that his partner can be disposed of when he is no longer satisfied. Additionally empirical research suggests that when the experimental subjects are exposed to repeated presentations of pornography over a six-week period, "they devalue the importance of monogamy and lack confidence in marriage as a lasting institution." |