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The Porn Trap: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Problems Caused by Pornography | 
 enlarge | Authors: Wendy Maltz, Larry Maltz
Publisher: Collins Living
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 12020
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 006123186X
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.77
EAN: 9780061231865
ASIN: 006123186X
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
Since the explosion of the Internet and other forms of digital technology, the number of people addicted to pornography has skyrocketed. But there has been a distinct lack of resources to help them until now. The Porn Trap is the first book to take a comprehensive look at porn addiction and other devastating consequences of porn use, addressing the full range of problems that impact everyone from recreational "dabblers" to compulsive addicts, and the people who care about them. In this groundbreaking book, sex and relationship therapists Wendy and Larry Maltz take on this important subject with wisdom, authority, and compassion. They shed new light on the power of pornography—revealing why it's so easy to develop a serious problem with porn and often hard to break free from its clutches. Without judgment or blame, the Maltzes outline the destructive effects of porn use, and offer a commonsense, practical approach for healing supported by innovative exercises, checklists, and suggestions. The Porn Trap will help you to: - Identify and evaluate the impact of porn
- Decide whether it's time to quit using porn
- Learn how to stop using porn and deal with cravings
- Rebuild self-esteem and restore personal integrity
- Heal a relationship harmed by porn use, and
- Develop a thriving and satisfying sexual life without porn
Throughout the book are powerful real-life stories from everyday people from all walks of life who have struggled with porn and gotten out from under its influence. Their experiences show that no matter how bad things may seem, it is possible to change and eventually triumph over this increasingly common problem. With The Porn Trap, Wendy and Larry Maltz provide a unique blend of help, hope, and healing for all who want to move away from porn, improve their lives, and create genuine intimacy with a partner.
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 Great for the Science September 10, 2008
I'd give it more stars but as the partner of a PA, it wasn't all that helpful. My husband left me after only 5 months married (but years of abuse) saying he was a porn addict. We weren't going to work on it, he decided. He just wanted his life how it had been for 20+ years. Porn addiction really IS an addiction. It ruined two lives. But this book doesn't have anything for the partners in the rubble left behind, just for partners in stages of recovery while IN the relationship still. There's nothing for us still struggling with being left by someone in denial. Since no one has written a non-religious book on being the partner of a PA, we have to get what we can from other books like this. What is special about this book is that it gives names to all the chemicals in the brain of the PA and what they are doing to cause such chaos in the PA's life. If you want to be able to explain to people how this is an addiction and very dangerous, this book will give you that vocab.
 An indispensable guide........ September 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a psychologist and sex therapist, I found "The Porn Trap" to be a compassionate and sound book for clinicians and also for those individuals dealing with the consequences of excessive porn use. This book offers intelligent and healing counsel for anyone suffering with compulsive porn use, while also giving hope and guidance to the partner. When porn has become habitual and the individual has "hit bottom," this book provides strategies to understand, not pathologize, the destructive pattern. The treatment approaches by Wendy and Larry Maltz offer the reader hopeful, clear, and supportive guidance to reestablish intimacy and pleasure in a relationship. I highly recommend this book!
Very helpful August 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"The Porn Trap" is a very helpful book for those who find pornography to be destructive in their lives.
Ralph H Earle, PhD
Author of "Lonely All the Time"
Highly recommended August 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this book as a primary resource for anyone struggling with a pornography addiction or involved with someone who has a pornography addiction. The authors take a pragmatic look at the consequences of porn addiction and offer tested and real-life steps to move away from addiction and towards healthy sexuality. In doing so, they offer hope to many who feel overwhelmed and indeed "trapped" in their addictive behaviors or in their relationship with someone who is addicted. Very good and an extensive resources section in the back.
 Narrow Audience, Narrow Stories, Narrow-mindedness July 30, 2008
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
The main audience for this book was clearly composed of heterosexual white married men who practice a shame-based form of Christianity.
Great heaping details of the struggles these men went through as boys encountering their father's Playboys, up to and including relapsing due to glancing at women's lingerie ads in their Sunday newspaper, fill the pages. Some testimonials from women are given, but they are infrequent and sound two-dimensional. The one clear narrative from a gay man (the good doctor can only refer to them as "homosexuals" not gay) sounds like something her editor made her put in at the last minute to make the book appear to be balanced - it's not. The relief is almost palpable as she leaves this narrative and moves back to the redundant straight guy narratives.
If you are struggling with obsessive behavior related to porn, and you're not the target audience, you won't hear your voice in this book, especially not when the doctor talks about healthy sexual relations - there is nothing about healthy gay or lesbian couples. Nowhere does the book deal with the reality that young gays and lesbians often have no healthy outlet for their sexuality or source of honest information. While there are some common sense ideas for reducing and avoiding dependence on porn (mainly just 12-step programs), it is unlikely those who are not white, male, married, and committed to the concept of Christian rigidity will have the stamina to wade through all the non-applicable examples and repeated cries of "shame" to pull out anything of use; and that's too bad because this problem is not limited to any one sexual group.
The one compliment I can give is she offers lots of examples of straight men drawn into underage porn - it was nice not to see gays treated as predators.
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