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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 06:17 AM
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Pornography Can Ruin Your Marriage - Consider a Porn Filter on Your Pc

Pornography can ruin your marriage. It’s a fact and it is happening every day. The Internet is making it worse for many couples. Along with all of the wonderful things the Internet has brought us, also came the ability to easily view endless amounts of adult content for free by anyone at any time and with complete discretion. Suddenly, for a man to look at hardcore adult videos became easier than picking the morning newspaper off of the driveway.

For many marriages and serious relationships, Internet pornography has been a terrible problem that some are just not able to overcome. While it usually begins as innocent curiosity, for some, it turns into compulsive behavior. Studies have proven that viewing porn can become an addiction. It’s not a joke and it’s not something a person can control, once they get beyond a certain point and it becomes a full blown habit. But by using a porn filter on your computer, you can actually stop a porn addiction from ever developing.

Adult content and websites are accessible to adults and children alike in abundance. It is not like television where a governing body creates and implements laws about what content can be broadcast. Even today, when there is more violence and sex on TV, it is still unlikely that a child will accidentally see x-rated scenes on TV. But online, there is no one making decisions about what can and can not be uploaded and nothing is filtered.

Just about anyone can spend time at work and at home browsing porn without anyone seeing them do so. And more easily and more commonly than most people realize, many of men, women and teens become addicted to porn. It is also not difficult to hide an addiction to pornography. Other habits, like gambling, likely get discovered when losses become noticeable. But the Internet allows people to keep their compulsion to view porn hidden.

So just stop and get back to working on your relationship
An internet addiction is not like a drug addiction where someone is actually breaking the law and others can easily know something is wrong with the person. It’s not like gambling, where you can tell there is a problem when the person runs up too much debt. The Internet has lots of great things to offer. You can shop, learn, pay bills, communicate with friends, read the news – all online today. So spending a lot of time surfing the Internet is not always noticed as a problem - and until one recognizes the problem in themselves or others begin to notice a change in behavior, it can take a long time. Furthermore for a wife or girlfriend, it can be very humiliating to admit that her husband or boyfriend is addicted to watching porn.

So avoid the problem in the first place!

Porn addiction is characterized by a difficulty to limit time spent online looking at adult websites. More and more people are looking at porn regularly – wives, girlfriends, husbands, teens, etc. They are looking at it for one reason – they can. If there was something to prevent them, most people would not go out of their way to see it. Pathological use of Internet porn can be stopped. By blocking adult content with a porn blocking software, you can eliminate access by simply blocking out those problematic sites.

An adult filter, like Optenet PC is an easy way to stop a porn addiction problem as well as to manage your total Internet environment.
So has it ruin your relationship or made it better?
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 06:21 AM
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Id say it made my relationships better. It kept me worn out so I could last longer when I do the real thing h:.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 06:22 AM
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i find it easy to limit the time i spend on porn sites... i think its called ejaculation. :chuckles:
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 06:22 AM
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my girlfriend has been known to download porn :hsdunno:
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 06:30 AM
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Once i started having a live in gf, all porn watching stopped.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 06:38 AM
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adultfriendfinder ruins your relationships and promotes cheating.

porn blossoms sexually healthy relationships. everyone knows that.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 07:01 AM
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the article provided no statistics or references to support their point. :down:
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 07:13 AM
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she doesn't know
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 08:26 AM
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Doesn't hurt or better our relationship.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 01:46 PM
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spankwire and my current relationship go hand in hand :dunno:
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