We have an epidemic in our culture today! Porn addiction is real. And it is devastating many family and relationship around the world. As a psychotherapist who has been working with individuals and couple who struggle with sex addiction or porn addiction, I have seen first hand the emotional pain and hurt these compulsive sexual behaviors create.
For many who struggle with porn, they don’t see the cost until it is too late. To understand the emotional toll that looking at porn creates you can check out our post on “How does porn hurt my wife?”
Cost of Pornography on Our Society
One aspect of pornography addiction is that so much time is spent on porn. For many who are in the depth of the addiction, they can spend hours a day thinking and looking at pornography. According to PornHub people around the globe have spent 4.5 billion hours watching porn in 2016. With an average of 10 minutes spent watching daily, with about 81 million people visiting just PornHub daily. The amount of pornography content that is upload within a year would be impossible for anyone to watch in a lifetime. (These are only the numbers from PornHub, meaning that these statistics are higher due to the number of porn sites on the internet)
Cost of Porn on Children
93% of boys and 62% of girls have been exposed to pron in early adolescents. The average age is 11 but is following to below 10 years old as porn become more accessible and easier to access online. Out of all underage porn access we know 22% comes from children under that age of 10, while 36% come from 10 to 14 year old.
Studies suggest that viewing porn and another sexual image can create the following issues:
- Reinforce harmful gender stereotypes
- Forming an unhealthy and sexist view of women and sex
- Increased rates of condoning violence against women
- Higher rates of sexual dysfunction in men in their early 20’s due to childhood pornography usage
- Pornography usage can decrease the age of first starting sexual activity, and increases risk-taking sexual behavior
- Increased odds of teenage pregnancy
- Increased rates of STI
- Elevated rates of depression
- A higher rate of lower self-esteem.
We are still learning what the long term effects of internet porn are on our society. The internet has not been around long enough for us to know what could happen to generations. Yet what is clear is that research is showing that there are many adverse outcomes in starting to view pron form such an early age. This is also why there is a rise in pornography and sex addiction within our sociality.
Pornography & Sex Trafficking
One of the most significant costs of pornography addiction is that connection of pornography usage and sex trafficking. 80% of survivors of sex trafficking report that their customers showed them pornography to illustrate the kind of sexual activity they wanted to be performed. Porn is used by sex traffickers to train sex trafficking victims. In one report found that over 800 women who were in forces prostitution that porn was an integral role to prostitution.
Cost of Pornography at Work
Accounting to the Nielson company up to 25% of all workers visit sexually oriented websites on their work computers, for an average of 40 minutes a month at work. The cost of just productively in the US, because of porn usage is about 16.9 Billion. With the average worker who accesses porn at work costing losing about $500 a year for the company.
Cost of Pornography with Time
We all have one life to live, and our time is valuable, yet we spend so much time as a society viewing pornography. About 30,000 people are viewing pornography on the internet every second and spending about $3,000 every second.
Cost of Pornography in your Marriage
While porn connects to the sexual parts of our humanity, viewing porn actuals creates a disconnect that our sexuality should play. When we develop a healthy sexuality, we experience that connection with others, yet porn causes us to expires sexually alone.
Impacts of porn usage on marriages and families include
- 47% of families states that porn usage is a problem in there home
- Porn usage can increase marital infidels rate by more than 300%
- 40% of self identify sex addicts will lose their spouses
- 58% of sex addicts super consider final losses with about 33% of sex adduces losing their job
- 68% of divorce cases state that infidelity within the mirage started from online sexting, or messaging
- 56% of divorce cases state hat a partner has a porn addiction.
Porn addiction is costing people their marriage, and this leads to a contested divorce in most cases. Contested divorces cost anywhere from $15,000 to $30,0000 on average in legal fees. This does not include the long term cost of alimony and child support.
The Cost Of Recovery
The cost that porn is a having on our relationship, families, and community is high. Luckily you can stop the divesting effected of pornography usage by starting to work on recovery. This means you should see out a therapist who can help you with sex addiction or porn addiction. It will require you to attending a group or individual therapy once a week for a year or two. The cost of treatment over time will be far less than the cost of a divorce, lost productivity and potential job loss.
Most inpatient 30 day recovery programs rage for about 40,000, plus the cost of continuing therapy including individual therapy for the porn addict, couples counseling, individual counseling for the hurt partner, and possible family therapy.
Best Value For Long Term Recovery
This is why I have created Richer Life Recovery. Our online program is a psycho-educational based program that will help you have long term recovery at a reasonable cost. If you are ready to make long term changes and in your life, today is the day to start your recovery. Begin our free online course.
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Resources
1 – https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201111/the-profit-in-sex-addiction
2 – https://www.bustle.com/p/how-long-americans-spent-watching-porn-in-2016-28683
3 – https://fightthenewdrug.org/by-the-numbers-see-how-many-people-are-watching-porn-today/
4 – https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/2016/05/04/children-and-young-peoples-exposure-pornography
5 – http://humantraffickingsearch.org/the-connection-between-sex-trafficking-and-pornography/
6 -https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2011/2/
7 – https://www.webroot.com/us/en/resources/tips-articles/internet-pornography-by-the-numbers
8 – https://info.legalzoom.com/average-cost-divorce-20103.html
9 –https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201111/the-profit-in-sex-addiction
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