For example...
As I was looking through some of my Google+ buddies this morning I found an article shared by +Hope Sparrow. (Thanks, Sparrow!) I've added it to my new "Soft Articles" category, and also linked to it below for anyone who missed it:
Natasha Helfer Parker, Patheos, February 2012
A woman writes in about her D-day and the confusion and panic attacks that follow. Parker, an licensed clinical marriage and family therapist, sex therapist, and member of the LDS church, answers her queries.
Also ... as a follow up to my last post, "To be a light," I am going to start a tab for resources about abuse. I hope all this stuff is helpful!
Love you guys!
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Just one note about Natasha Parker's work. She has some great things to say on that post, but in what I have seen from her material, she tends to use the DSM as the guide for defining addiction while ignoring what the American Society for Addiction Medicine has done in this regard. (e.g., http://www.yourbrainonporn.com/asam-definition-of-addiction-long-version-2011)
ReplyDeleteI also personally am uncomfortable with her somehow wanting to make a differentiation between erotica and pornography; in my mind it denies the impact the creation of erotica has on those who create it and on the machine that sells it. In my view, you can't pick up one end of the stick without picking up the other. If people make or buy or use erotica, they are perpetuating an industry that harms women and children and relationships. Dr. Jill Manning has some good material on this reality, as does Porn Harms and other organizations.
I would highly recommend Rowboat and Marbles' personal reflections from an addict on lust and its role in unhealthy pornography use (porn is not the core problem -- lust is) and unhealthy sexual dynamics in a marriage.
I am so glad you shared this Angel:) Thanks for the shout out!
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