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Need to talk to a counselor?
Help is available at: mcapinc@juno.com

How do I know if I'm addicted to pornography?
You are unable to resist looking at it.
you are preoccupied or obsessed with pornography.
Efforts to stop viewing it have failed.
A great deal of time is spent using pornography, masturbating to it, and recovering from its effects (feeling shame, failure).
Pornography interferes with your job, schooling, family life.
The need to increase the intensity of pornography (escalation) or frequency of its use in order to achieve the desired effect.
Irritability or tension build-up if unable to use pornography.

What can I do to overcome my addiction?
It is important to get counseling by a professional who is familiar with the problem of sexual addiction. If you need help in finding such a person, contact the following organizations who have an outreach to addicts and to wives of addicts:

Join a support group for Porn/Sex Addicts. Many areas have a Sex-aholics Anonymous group, or your counselor may know of one that would be helpful. Accountability to a group or a trusted friend is an important part of recovery.

Read some good books on the subject:
-"Confronting Your Spouse’s Pornography Problem" by Rory C. Reid, LCSW, and Dan Gray, LCSW.
-"The Silent War" by Henry Rogers
-"Every Man's Battle" by Stephen Arterburn
-"Every Young Man's Battle" by Stephen Arterburn
-"Out of the Shadows" by Patrick Carnes (Compcare Publications)
-"Addicted to Love" by Stephen Arterburn (Servant Publications)
-"False Intimacy" by Harry Schaumburg

Programs and Organizations Offering Help:

Maryland Coalition Against Pornography (MD, DC, and Northern VA only)
301-439-8475

A list of Counselors we refer people to for help in the local region.

www.celebraterecovery.com
(Christian-based support groups throughout the US) For groups in Maryland, call 301-926-0967, ext 105, or 301-249-2230.

Fires of Darkness - A ministry for pornography addicts, and the people who love them.

Pure Online, a sex addiction recovery site to help the millions of men around the world who have found the accessibility and anonymity of illicit (and often
illegal) material on the internet too big of a temptation to resist. The Pure Online workshop tilts the anonymity of web surfing to its advantage by providing a completely confidential recovery workshop, overcoming what experts and recovering addicts believe to be the biggest roadblock to
treatment: fear of exposure. Participants in the workshop can complete the course on their own time, at their own pace and with 100% confidentially...

XXXChurch.com  This website is designed to help those struggling with pornography to overcome their addiction. They call themselves, “the number one Christian porn site”, which can be disconcerting. However, their focus is completely, 100% anti-porn.

National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families
Victim Assistance Helpline:
1-800-583-2964
during business hours, Mon.-Fri., EST

Victims of Pornography
219-357-5484, or www.victimsofpornography.org

Christian Alliance for Sexual Recovery: 662-844-5524, or
http://www.helpandhope.org

Exodus International
P.O. Box 77652
Seattle, WA 98177-0652
For those who want help in breaking from homosexuality

Desert Stream Ministries
P.O. Box 17635
Anaheim, CA 92817-7635
A ministry to the sexually and relationally broken
Phone: 714.779.6899

Mastering Life Ministries
P.O. Box 351149
Jacksonville, FL 32235-1149 For those dealing with any area of sexual brokenness

Pure Life Ministries
P.O. Box 410
Dry Creek, KY 41035
Residential ministry for those dealing with sexual addictions.

Help For Pastors:

Pornography and the Pulpit: Understanding the Sins of the Shepherd as a Means of Restoration (Paperback) by Richard Nevard.