Adolescents and Pornography: A Generation of Disconnection and Addiction
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Any useful analysis of adolescents and pornography must first start with facts. The first and most important fact to understand is that kids engage with and through technology as much if not more than they engage face-to-face with actual, in-the-flesh people. Children born in the US and other first-world nations, and even many second and third-world na-tions, live in an Internet-enabled, deeply digital universe. They are ìdigital natives. For them, texting, video chats, social media, online…
He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist as well as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist who founded the first adolescent treatment IOP for teens hooked on pornography in the Silicon Valley. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of RTribe—an addiction recovery platform that allows addicts to track and share their progress with their support community. His passion is to build technology that will equip this generation with the science and wisdom that heals addiction.
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