Pornography addiction is usually thought of as a “male addiction,” but statistics show that rapidly increasing numbers of women are getting caught in this trap. Becca Cipriani, a writer for the HomeLife Magazine, interviewed Candeo Co-Founder Mark Kastleman on the issue of women and pornography use. In her exceptional article, Hooked on a Feeling, Becca and Mark delve into the brain science, psychology, and emotional elements that pull women into pornography.
As part of the article, Candeo Co-Founders Dr. Randy Hyde and Dr. Bernel Christensen give an excellent overview of the powerful neuro-chemicals that flood the brain during porn viewing—for both men and women. The review is called, This is Your Brain on Porn. To view the article, please click on the link below. Enjoy!
Home Life Magazine Candeo Article
Note: The article, Hooked on a Feeling, is from the October 2009 issue of HomeLife magazine, a publication of LifeWay Christian Resources © Copyright 2009. Used with permission. To order a subscription, call 800.458.2772 or visit www.lifeway.com/magazines .
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jtodd
September 29, 2009 • 10:44 pm
Thank you so much for sharing this.
That is exactly what started my addiction was the romance novels at a young age.
aaron
October 1, 2009 • 12:40 pm
Mark
I need some help with something. What I can do, now that I have told my wife and my bishop about this problem that I have, to covercome the times that I am just feeling overwhelming tempted. Even so much so that I am will to put my job in danger to “get my fix”. I feel so scared at times that I will and I cannot even begin to imagin what it would be like I were to loose my job from this. What can I do?
Mark Kastleman
October 1, 2009 • 1:01 pm
Aaron:
congratulations on taking a major step in your recovery! Inviting your wife and Bishop to help you takes great courage and maturity. You’re on the right track. Now, you need to gain the knowledge, tools and skills needed to shrink the addiction circuitry you have created in your brain and build new healthy behavior circuitry. You need to learn how to confront and deal with your sexual urges and triggers in healthy, productive ways. You must understand what “triggers” you to seek self-medication through pornography and replace this with healthy pleasure outlets. In addition, you must begin to develop a “healthy sexuality” mindset where you can enjoy the full measure of this amazing gift in your life and marriage relationship. These things and many more are needed to help you progress down the recovery path. Your wife, Bishop, a 12-Step Group–all of these will help you. And, through Candeo’s online recovery training program, you can gain all of the knowledge, tools and start to develop and perfect the recovery skills essential to your success.
So, what are you waiting for? Get started on the Candeo program and moving forward to your new life!
aaron
October 1, 2009 • 1:14 pm
Thank you for your response. I want to sign up so much for Candeo, even the mini course and emails have helped me to better understand this. I just can;t right now. We are basically living paycheck to paycheck and the extra money is just impossible.
Brad
January 10, 2011 • 2:09 am
Aaron, my church leader paid for my brother to get started. Maybe he could help you. I know my brother felt like spending a little for about 8 months, saved him thousands in other expenses. Good luck. Give it a try, I’ll bet they’ll help you out.
Peet
October 1, 2009 • 10:38 pm
I broke an intense addiction with a 48 day porn-free commitment, and put a cool looking gold star sticker in my diary on each of those days, and naming each day with the ‘energy’ that typified it, plus the free Candeo audio downloads were great, some counselling, sharing with friends and creativity all helped … best of luck Aaron to make a BOLD decision, its even good for posture too !! There’s seriously not much to lose …
Shane Brown
October 2, 2009 • 12:08 am
I agree… It is too bad that so many of us can’t afford to get the help we desperately need.
Paul
December 20, 2009 • 12:17 pm
I found my insurance will cover mental health issues for the cost of a co-payment ($40) for me. However I highly doubt they would be willing to fork out anything for Candeo even though Candeo has way more experience then most psychologists out there.
Julie
January 10, 2011 • 2:01 am
I hope it is OK for a woman to post here. I live in Australia, I am 42 years old, married with two teenage children. My husband and I run a family business and I work from home looking after the office. I am home alone for often for 7-8 hours per day, sometimes it is very quiet, no phone calls and I started surfing the internet and out of boredom started looking at adult sites. At first it was just for fun, then I started to feel some excitement and this progressed to me enjoying self pleasure. Before I realised it this became a daily ritual. I have never felt so hopeless when I realised I was addicted to this practice, I really did need my fix on a daily basis. Often I would spend 3-4 hours at a time looking and pleasuring myself. Other times I would have more than one session during the day.
I am now trying to pluck up the courage to tell someone face to face what I have become, this is my first attempt to explain my actions. Thank you for giving me this opportunity.