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Pornography Use May Now Be the Most Common Addiction in America, Study Suggests, by Jonathon Van Maren – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Pornography Use May Now Be the Most Common Addiction in America, Study Suggests, by Jonathon Van Maren

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By Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSiteNews, Oct 11, 2024 – 6:00 am EDT

Jonathon’s writings have been translated into more than six languages and in addition to LifeSiteNews, has been published in the National Post, National Review, First Things, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Stream, the Jewish Independent, the Hamilton Spectator, Reformed Perspective Magazine, and LifeNews, among others. He is a contributing editor to The European Conservative.

 

The good news is that many of those struggling with porn addiction want to get help. They want recovery groups that will help them gain freedom again and to recover some sense of what healthy sexuality and genuine intimacy look like.

Featured Image(LifeSiteNews) — For years, a handful of scholars like David Ley have run cover for the porn industry, insisting that “porn addiction” does not actually exist. Millions of people struggling with porn addiction would beg to differ.

In fact, a recent study showed that the phrase “porn addiction symptoms” is searched an average of 70,000 times per month in the United States, with “porn addiction signs” and “porn addiction” ranking as the most commonly searched terms related to addiction. The study indicates that porn addiction appears to be the most common form of addiction in the United States.

I have spoken to thousands of students on pornography in the last several years, and I can state unequivocally that not only is porn addiction a growing problem – porn addiction is starting at younger and younger ages. ….

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