Psychology Today

An overwhelming majority of the people receiving, treating or arguing about sex addiction are white. What does this lack of diversity mean?

A 1989 study found that porn made men love their wives less, but these findings could not be replicated in more recent research.

Blaming porn-related personal and relationship problems on addiction disturbance is the worst form of pseudoscience - it's also potentially iatrogenic.

The polygraph is widely discredited as a valid tool for detecting deception. So why are therapists and clinicians calling it a way to "keep sex addicts honest"?

In this campaign, we've heard about candidate's genitalia, seen nude pictures of a possible First Lady, and witnessed an election sink below the level of locker room conversations.

The 2016 GOP convention is contemplating strident stances that express opposition to our society's sweeping changes to sexual values and behaviors.

When therapists are allowed to refer patients away based on religious beliefs, it causes harm. Healers are not supposed to harm their patients.

Fear and panic-based dialogues about pornography are isolating men, shaming them and preventing conversations about how to help men be sexually healthy.

A response to Dr. Philip Zimbardo's exhortations about the dangers of porn

Online, men send unsolicited pictures of their genitalia. But why do men do it? The answer isn't as simple as "men are disgusting perverts."

Despite sex addiction not being an accepted diagnosis, people keep trying to use it as a way to stay out of jail, keep their kids, or to hang onto their career.

Learning what nightmares are, and what they aren't, is one of the first ways to remove their power.

We select leaders who tell us what we want to hear - that they have the answers and can fix things. Are we telling candidates we want them to be narcissists?

Despite the growing recognition of a mental health crisis in the United States, one of the country's largest funders of healthcare continues to provide grossly inadequate coverage of behavioral health.